CAPTAIN ROOSEVELT
TALK TO JOURNALISTS IN LONDON
ADMIRING TRIBUTE PAID TO MR CHURCHILL.
COMMENT ON RAID DAMAGE
(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, August 21
Captain Elliott Roosevelt, the second son of the United States President, speaking to journalists this morning, described the meeting between the British Prime Minister and the President as marking a very important step in the progress of the war.
'When I met Mr Churchill,” he added, "I felt he was someone whom I had known before. We have had characteristic photographs of him in the American Press and his manner of speaking on the radio has given us a very good impression of what sort of man he is. I think he is probably one of the most colourful men who have appeared in the world in our time and I think no one can deny the fact that he is one of the greatest.” Captain Roosevelt expressed himself as surprised at the comparatively small amount o' damage done in London by the air raids, about which, he said, there are "exaggerated ideas” in America. "I fully expected to see scarcely anything standing at all,” he added. Captain Roosevelt is on an official mission from the United States Air Corps, in which he holds a commission.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1941, Page 4
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