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Inquirers--because I'm in charge of this section of what our delegation thinks and does--am I entitled to say that you will support it.”

He said, “It's up to the Boss,” pointing his thumb at the President. “It's up to the Boss. Whatever he says, goes.”

Well, that left me just as I was before, you see. So I said, “All right, let's take it up with him right now--hm?”

He said, “All right.”

The President was just being wheeled out of the dining-room, you see, and I said, “We're going up to look at pictures now.”

“I know,” he said.

I said, “We have a few minutes on the way up. It's your right to go next, after Mrs. Churchill. Mrs. Churchill will go out the door behind him. You go and I'll come right behind you. I won't stand on protocol. You walk on one side of the President's chair and I'll walk on the other.”

“All right,” he said.

So I walked along. I went up to the President, and I said, “I have just had a talk with Mr. Churchill, very definitely about the I.L.O.”

“Oh, yes?” said the President, as though it was a total surprise to him. “What do you think about it, Winston?”





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