Today's History: : What’s New About the War?: "As for relations at the top...
...some of Churchill’s biographers, including Roy Jenkins and me, believe that the prime minister’s absence from Roosevelt’s funeral was dictated not by duties of state, as he himself claimed in April 1945, but instead by anger about the perceived slights and injuries inflicted by the president during his last years in the White House...
If so, than Churchill was an idiot.
Churchill then needed, above all, to cement his ability to try to guide Truman into the world as it was going to be--and if a trip to DC was at all possible he should have undertaken it.
As it was, it wasn't until March 5, 1946 that Churchill and company had Truman on the right track for the future security and prosperity of Britain...
