GENTLEMEN’S AGREEMENT
HIS PAST SUMMER—August 9, to be precise—marked the eightieth anniversary of the first official meeting between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. It took place in 1941 in Newfoundland, Canada’s Placentia Bay aboard the USS —a ship that was already a witness to history, as the cruiser had been in the mouth of the Yangtze River near Shanghai four years earlier
