December 27th, 1941

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

1:35am

Retired from previous day

White House

USH

10:10am –

10:50am

War Sec. Henry L. Stimson, Gen. George C. Marshall (Chief of Staff), Gen. Henry H. Arnold

Subject: Unity of Military Command

White House (Study)

USH, STE, FR, TU

12:00pm –

12:35pm

Chiefs of Missions of South American Republics, British Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill co-host: Argentinian Amb. Felipe A. Espil, Bolivian Min. Dr. Luis Fernando Guachalla, Chilean Amb. Rodolfo Michels, Colombian Amb. Dr. Gabriel Turbay, Costa Rican Min. Dr. Luis Fernandez, Cuban Amb. Dr. Aurelio F. Concheso, Dominican Min. Dr. Jesus Maria Troncoso, Ecuadorian Amb. Capitan Colon Eloy Alfaro, El Salvadoran Min. Dr. Hector David Castro, Guatemalan Min. Dr. Adrian Recinos, Haitian Min. Fernand Dennis, Honduran Min. Dr. Julian R. Caceres, Mexican Amb. Dr. Francisco Castillo Najera, Nicaraguan Min. Dr. Don Leon DeBayle, Panamanian Amb. Ernesto Jaen Guardia, Paraguayan Min. Dr. Juan Jose Soler, Peruvian Amb. Manuel de Freyre y Santander, Uruguayan Amb. Dr. Juan Carlos Blanco, Venezuelan Amb. Dr. Don Diogenes Escalante

Note: Memorandum by the Mexican Amb. Castillo Najera documents this meeting. A translation is in "Foreign Relations of the United States"

Subject: Status of the War

White House (Red Parlor)

STE, USH, FR, TU

12:35pm –

1:05pm

Chinese Amb. Dr. Hu Shih and the newly appointed Chinese Foreign Affairs Min. Dr. T. V. Soong. British Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill co-host in Red Parlor

White House

STE, USH, FR, TU

1:05pm –

2:00pm

(lunch - Study) British Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill, Soviet Amb. Maxim Litvinov, Harry L. Hopkins

Subject: Declaration of Allied Unity

White House

STE, USH, FR, TU

2:05pm –

2:40pm

British Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill, Netherlands Min. Dr. A. Loudon

White House - Study

USH, TU, PAI

3:00pm –

3:55pm

British Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill, British Amb. Lord Halifax, Canadian Prime Min. William L. Mackenzie King, Canadian Min. Leighton McCarthy, Australian Min. Richard G. Casey, South African Min. Ralph William Close, Agent General of India Sir Girja Shankar Bajpai

White House - Red Parlor

STE, USH, FR, TU

3:30pm

Chiefs of Missions of Allied Powers and Refugee Governments: Belgian Amb. (Count Robert van der Straten-Ponthoz), Chinese Amb. Dr. Hu Shih, Polish Amb. Jan Ciechanowski, Norwegian Min. Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne, Netherlands Min. Dr. A. Loudon, Greek Minister Cimon P. Diamantopoulos, Luxembourg Min. Hugues Le Gallais, Danish Min. Henrik de Kauffmann, Icelandic Minister Thor Thors

Note: President's Appointment Index also lists, but crossed out: Russian Ambasssador, British Amb., South African Minister, Australian Minister Richard G. Casey. Not clear how this meeting relates to others for this afternoon.

White House

PAI

4:00pm –

4:15pm

Chiefs of missions of all nations at war with the Axis Powers (except those received earlier). British Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill co-host in Study.

White House

STE, USH, FR, TU

5:35pm –

6:20pm

To Doctor's office

White House

USH

6:20pm –

7:30pm

Sec. of State Cordell Hull, British Amb. Lord Halifax, British Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill

White House

STE, USH, FR, PAI

7:30pm

(cocktails - Red Parlor) ER and guests

White House

USH

7:55pm –

8:50pm

(dinner) ER, 15 guests

White House

USH

9:15pm –

9:40pm

Soviet Amb. Maxim Litvinov

White House

USH, FR

9:40pm –

11:50pm

Grace G. Tully

Note: Retired at 0108 next day

White House

USH

ER

In Washington, DC

USH

USH = White House Usher's Diary, STE = Stenographer's Diary, PC = Press Conference, TU = Tully's Appointment Diary

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