Episode 198-The Beginning of the Big Three

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.4 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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President Roosevelt sends Harry Hopkins, again to London, to set up a meeting between himself and Churchill. The U.S. still seems far from entering the war, but coordination is needed if Hitler is to be defeated. But Hopkins also ends up flying to Moscow to meet with Stalin, the first high ranking American to do so. Meanwhile, as Washington wonders what to do about the Japanese Empire, Tokyo decides on its own to take the initiative. Pictured is Harry Hopkins and Stalin during their first meeting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, and thank you for listening to The History of World War II podcast, Episode
0:14.4	198, The Beginning of the Big Three.
0:19.4	Last time, in July of 1941, President Roosevelt sent Harry Hopkins, again, to see Churchill.
0:26.8	FDR felt the time had come for the two leaders to meet face to face, to discuss and align
0:33.6	their priorities and plans to defeat Nazi Germany.
0:38.3	He had also given Hopkins to give to the Prime Minister a map, detailing the United States
0:44.2	Navy's new expanded area of patrolling, basically the vast majority of the Atlantic Ocean.
0:52.5	Clinton was now to focus on patrolling just around the British Isles, which the American
0:57.2	hoped would take some of the pressure off the Royal Navy, which was stretched thin by now.
1:03.0	However, the President stressed to Hopkins to stress to the war-weary British leader.
1:09.1	Their coming conversation would not be about the US getting into the war.
1:15.2	The American people were not ready for that, though inevitable it may have felt.
1:20.5	In the savvy politician you, he couldn't go any further than his constituents wanted
1:25.6	to go themselves.
1:28.6	It had been six months since Hopkins had last been to London, and though the destruction
1:33.7	Hopkins viewed on his way to see Churchill was staggeringly worse, there had been
1:39.2	vast changes for the better.
1:42.1	For one, there were now many US military observers in and around London, getting a sense
1:48.4	of this modern war, the good, and the bad of it.
1:52.5	The latter was mostly the suffering of the people.
1:56.3	But also, and Churchill couldn't wait to share this bit of news, the Royal Air Force
2:01.3	had been using the delivered flying fortresses to bomb parts of Germany.
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