When 80 year old Mary Soames wrote of life with her father Winston Churchill as an 18 year old through the dark days of the beginning of the Second World War in Britain she described the visit for some weeks of Harry Hopkins. Hopkins, an American, son of a harness maker, then a Federal undersecretary was sent to Britain by Roosevelt to assess the situation there and what needs America could and should supply. Mary remembers the intimate time that Hopkins spent with her father and their family through the withering period of the battle of Britain when the British felt alone and abandoned and her father was so pressed.
She recalled the family dinner given for Hopkins on his departure. He stood and spoke to them that evening and he said, in passing, "I suppose you wonder what I will say to President Roosevelt when I return. This is what I can and will advise them for our countries. "Where you go we will go and where you lodge we will lodge and your people will be my people." Hopkins,son of the harness maker found nothing more expressive of the connection with Britain, America and the family of Mary Soames than found and modified from the Book of Ruth and he was as good as his word.
A Daughter's Tale; The Memoirs of Winston Churchill. Mary Soames
She recalled the family dinner given for Hopkins on his departure. He stood and spoke to them that evening and he said, in passing, "I suppose you wonder what I will say to President Roosevelt when I return. This is what I can and will advise them for our countries. "Where you go we will go and where you lodge we will lodge and your people will be my people." Hopkins,son of the harness maker found nothing more expressive of the connection with Britain, America and the family of Mary Soames than found and modified from the Book of Ruth and he was as good as his word.
A Daughter's Tale; The Memoirs of Winston Churchill. Mary Soames
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