FICTION ALERT!
Herman Wouk devoted an entire chapter to the Atlantic Charter conference. His hero, Captain Victor ‘Pug’ Henry (fictitious character), attended because of his job in War Plans and also his more-than-nodding acquaintance with Roosevelt, Churchill, Harry Hopkins, and Admiral King, I will indulge in this one excerpt from the chapter because of Wouk’s take on the meeting of Roosevelt and Churchill. It is a more subjective account than what we will get from newspaper reports or actual history books. It might have value despite the subjectivity, or even because of it. It also sheds some light on the question of how FDR transferred from one ship to another.