When the first destroyers arrived in the fall Of 1940 under America Is Lend-Lease Program to Great Britain, Prime Minister Churchill went to inspect them. He was joined by FDR's right-hand man Harry Hopkins.
Churchill looked at the decidedly overaged rustbuckets and grumbled in a whisper, "Cheap and nasty."
Hopkins, who was startled by the remark, queried, "What was that?"
Churchill amended aloud, "Cheap for us and nasty for the Germans." |
