The first summit

Wilson, Theodore A.

At 9:24 a.m. on August 7, 1941, there steamed into the quiet harbor of Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, a United States naval task force with escorting destroyers from the Atlantic Fleet. On board these vessels were the President of the United States; the Chief of Naval Operations, the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, and a retinue of officials from the military, naval, and civilian branches of government. Two days later, rising morning mists revealed the great British battleship Prince of Wales dropping her anchor, surrounded by an escort of destroyers from the Royal Canadian Navy. Aboard the Prince of Wales was Winston Churchill, with his military commanders and civilian advisers. Thus opened the momentous and secret conference at which the Atlantic Charter was drawn up and arrangements made for American supplies for England and Russia, the escort of convoys by the United...

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