This is a CBSI and the World. I'm John Bachelor visiting with Professor Robert Schmool.

His book is Mr. Churchill in the White House, the untold story of a prime minister and two presidents, the two

presidents being President Roosevelt, who leaves us in 1945, and President Eisenhower

who selected in 1952, takes office in 53. Harry Truman is also someone

that Mr Churchill has a relationship with but he doesn't stay in the White House

because it's being rebuilt at that time of Mr. Truman's

sovereignty. However, we go to May of 43, Mr. Churchill's second visit to F. D.R. at the White House, in which he makes an important

speech to Congress, his second speech to Congress, and he has good news to impart.

Again though, there's a question of the relationship because

Mr Churchill, Winston Churchill the Prime Minister is most anxious about the plans for a second front.

Stalin is demanding a second front,

meaning on the mainland of Europe to draw off the

the might of the vermach pressing his forces in Russia and Churchill having been very much damaged

his reputation his future by his recklessness at Gallipoli in the First War, and also the

de-ep rate in November of 42 which led to catastrophe for a Canadian division that tested the Atlantic Wall, the

nation Atlantic Wall, in northeastern France.

What we have here is Churchill saying, no stay in the Mediterranean come under the soft belly of

the Hitlerites and the American is led by George Marshall and Henry Stimson say, Second Front now.

And that is the tension in the room always when they meet.

A professor, did the president choose

between Mr. Churchill and George Marshall and Henry Stimson? Did he let them fight

it out among themselves?

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