New White House Spokesman

While the President muffed the chance to make use of the immense public interest and potential public thrill of his meeting with Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister not only made capital of it, but told the U.S. people some things they wanted to know about the President's plans and purposes--things which their own President neither had the urge nor the willingness to tell them.

Churchill told the purpose of the conference: "We had the idea when we met there, the President and I, that without attempting to draw final and formal peace aims, or war aims, it was necessary to give ... a simple, rough and ready wartime statement of the goal toward which the British Commonwealth and the U.S. mean to make their way. . . ."

He told the purpose of the eight points: "to give hope and the assurance of final victory to those many scores of millions of men and women who are battling for life and freedom or who are already bent down under the Nazi yoke."

He told the two chief differences which he and the President tried to write into the U.S. and British war aims of World War II that were absent in the aims of World War I:

1) "The United States and Great Britain do not now assume that there will never be any more war again. On the contrary, we intend to take ample precaution to prevent its renewal in any period we can foresee by effectively disarming the guilty nations while remaining suitably protected ourselves. . . .

2) "Instead of trying to ruin German trade by all kinds of additional trade barriers and hindrances, as was the mood of 1917, we have definitely adopted the view that it is not in the interests of the world and of our two countries that any large nation should be unprosperous or shut out from the means of making a decent living for itself and its people by its industry and enterprise."

On top of all this it remained for Winston Churchill to tell the U.S. public what foreign policy Franklin Roosevelt had adopted toward Japan (see p. 15).

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