The Archive · 1941

Mr, Harry Hopkins Reaches London

London, Jan. 10.

Mr, Harry Hopkins, ' "President Roosevelt's personal representative; arrived here last night.

He declined to make any statement at present concerning the nature of his mission.

An air-raid alert was in force and guns were booming when Mr. Hop-king arrived at the main-line railway station. The platform was barricaded and guarded and no members of the general public saw him.

Mr. Hopkins, who was accompanied from his port of disembarkation by Mr, Churchill's Parliamentary Private Seoretary, Mr. Brendan Bracken, was greeted at the station Mr, Hersbal Johnson, of the American Embassy, representatives of the Foreign Office, Admiralty and other Government departments.

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