The Archive · 1941

At Cabinet Meeting

London, July 18.

Mr, Harry Hopkins, supervisor of the lease and lend programme and one of President Roosevelt's closest advisers, arrived in London yesterday n. His visit was to make a check-up in Britain on the operation of the aid bill. He was in Britain on a similar mission from January 6 to February 16.

Mr. Hopkins crossed the Atlantic in one of a fleet of big bombers, all of which arrived in Britain safely. He immediately visited Mr, Winston Churchill, Prime Minister and later attended a Cabinet meeting.

Hopkins yesterday attended a meeting of the British War Cabinet, creating a precedent—Reuter.

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