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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1942, Page 3

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BRITISH PRIME MINISTER

GIVEN TREMENDOUS WELCOME IN LONDON. AGREEMENT WITH UNITED STATES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 17. The following announcement was issued from No. .10 Downing Street: “The Prime .Minister arrived at Plymouth this morning on his return from the visit to the United States. Mir Churchill, who crossed the Atlantic from Bermuda in a living-boat of British Airways, was accompanied by Lord Beaverbrook, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound. Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, and Sir Charles Wilson.’’ Mr Churchill arrived in London by train this afternoon. He was given a tremendous welcome at the station, where almost every member of the Government had come to greet him. So great was the welcoming crowd and so determined were they to obtain a view of the Prime Minister that Mi' Churchill had difficulty in getting to his car. Cabinet Ministers jostled with reporters and cameramen, and there must have been more than one member of the Cabinet whom the Premier never saw’ at all. The Foreign Minister, Mr Eden was heard to remark: “We shall have to go to the cinema to see what happened.” Mr Churchill drove out of the station with Mrs Churchill, and other members of his family followed in a second car. It was only when the crowds begun to disperse that the Supply Minister, Lord Beaverbrook, stepped out of the train compartment. The Air Ministry announces that the British Overseas Airways Corporation flying-boat which conveyed Mr Churchill’s party from Bermuda to Plymouth was piloted by Commander Kelly Regers, 0.8. E., one of the corporation’s senior pilots. The flight, which was specially arranged by the Air Ministry, was made in a Boeing 314 aircraft. It is announced that as a result of the visit complete agreement between Britain and the United States has been reached on all questions.