Editorial Note
No official memoranda relating to the conversation at this luncheon meeting have been found. According to Mackenzie King’s notes printed in Pickersgill and Forster, pp. 67 and 69, the conversation “turned largely on discussion of personalities”, including General de Gaulle, Madame Chiang, and Marshal Stalin. The same source indicates that the conversation also touched upon the feelings of Roosevelt as head of the strongest military power in the world, on what might have happened if Hitler “had got into Britain”, on Roosevelt’s chances of reelection, and on the length of Mackenzie King’s prime ministership.