he met roosevelt secretly off the coast of new foundland.n though america was not yet in the war at that time they discussed war aims, and they agreed on what became the atlantic charter. and the freedoms that we wanted for the world if the democracies prevailed. churchill came back a few days. he landed in virginia a few days before christmas, 1941. and he and roosevelt and their combined military staffs conferred on strategy for the war. america was in the war by this time. it was just a couple of weeks after pearl harbor. and there was a lot to discuss. we had the same goals, but there were tremendous questions about allegation of supplies and material and men to europe for pacific or north africa. and so they had a lot of work to do. but roosevelt and churchill got along famously. after christmas, churchill took a special train to canada, gave a famous speech to the canadian parliament in ottawa. he came back on the overnight train on new year's eve. and the next morning he gets off at union station, goes to the white house where rooseve

roosevelt and churchill, when churchill came the first time, in that august, off the coast of new foundland, he arranged a very bright but solemn anglican service on the deck of "hms prince of wales." radios development and churchill were both anglicans. roosevelt belong to the episcopal church, churchill the king of england. the episcopal church split off from the church of england after the revolution but the liturgy and hymns are similar so they had this emotional uplifting service on the deck of "prince of wales" that august. well, not only were all these bases falling and not only was the carnage in the north atlantic continuing, but "hms prince of wales" itself had been sunk three days after pearl harbor. it was the first time air power alone had sunk a capital battleship on the open ocean and over 300 of the same men that roosevelt and churchill had warshiped with that august had died when that ship went down. so it was a time of tremendous stress, but the faith that was exhibited that day was remarkable, and i'm sure it had a lot to do with the morale and unity that america and the