Editorial Note

According to the President’s appointment calendar (Roosevelt Papers), this brief meeting, which took place in the President’s study, was attended by Roosevelt, Churchill, Soong, Litvinov, and Hopkins. The first four signed the declaration at about 10 p.m.; there is no indication that matters of substance were discussed. Further signatures were affixed on January 2, 1942, in the Department of State; see Foreign Relations, 1942, vol. i, p. 27.