ALLEGED MEETING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1941, Page 5

ALLEGED MEETING

CHURCHILL & ROOSEVELT ABOARD SHIP IN NORTH ATLANTIC. AMERICAN NEWSPAPER STORY. ißv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK. August 6. Tim frequently well-inform-ed “Miami Herald.” in a special dispatch from Washington. quoted reliable diplomatic. quarters as asserting- thatPresident Roosevelt and Air Churchill conferred this afternoon aboard a ship in Hie North Atlantic. It is asserted that British and Canadian sources said that the conference occurred- off New Brunswick, while others said that it was off Newfoundland. MORE RUMOURS THAT MR CHURCHILL MAY VISIT U.S.A. DENIALS IN CANADA. WASHINGTON. August 5. The New York “Sun” says that reports are circulating in Washington that a high British personage, possibly Mr Churchill or Lord Beaverbrook, might fly to America to confer with Mr Roosevelt in the near future. The paper points out that a visit by Mr Churchill, who is exceedingly popular in the United States, would have far-reaching effects in dramatising the world situation in the minds of the American public, but it suggests that Britain might feel that Mr Churchill is too valuable to risk in an Atlantic flight. A Canadian Press Association message says that in Ottawa, the Prime Minister, Mr Mackenzie King, and the British High Commissioner, Mr Malcolm MacDonald, denied knowledge of any projected visit by Mr Churchill to America; on the contrary, they said that, they thought it would be extremely unlikely.