ABSTRACT
In late November 1943, for the first time, the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin would join Churchill and Roosevelt at a summit to be held in Tehran, Iran. There the world leaders would meet to discuss plans for an invasion of Europe from the north, Operation Overlord. Much to the disappointment of Eleanor and Anna, Roosevelt refused to take them with him although he had invited Elliott, FDR, Jr., and Anna’s husband, John Boettiger who was stationed in North Africa. “Absolutely no women,” declared FDR. The navy would not allow women on shipboard. When photographs were printed of the meeting showing Churchill with his daughter Sarah and Chiang Kai-Shek of China with his wife, Madame Chiang, the angry Eleanor wrote her husband, “I’ve been amused that Madame Chiang and Sarah Churchill were in the party. I wish you had let me fly out.”
