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Among other items that I provided the President a memorandum on--actually, the only thing I gave him a memorandum on when he went to Yalta--was a memorandum on the I.L.O., to take up with Brother Stalin.

Interviewer:

You didn't give him any memo on it before that?

Perkins:

Well, I'm not sure about that. I may have. When was Churchill here, the time he brought Mrs. Churchill and Mary? It was during the War. It was '43 or '44. Remember VE Day was in '45 and the Yalta Conference was in '45. It may have been in '44. I don't remember Just when it was, but it was not winter, I'm sure. Of course, Churchill came a number of times and I saw him, I guess, almost every time he came. But on this occasion, he much brought Mrs. Churchill and Mary With him--Mary Churchill, his daughter, awfully nice girl.

I had a talk with Anthony Eden before that. I never let up on this I.L.O. business, making sure it would be in the Charter of the United Nations and would have its proper place and its independence, and I had pretty careful memoranda on it. When Anthony Eden was here, on one of these occasions, I had previously discussed the whole I.L.O. matter with the British Ambassador Halifax, and we had agreed that it should be in the agenda, and that it should be thus and so, that this should be the relationship. But he said, “Mr. Eden





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