"Mrs. Roosevelt Goes on Tour": Eleanor Roosevelt's Soft-Diplomacy during World War II

In the autumn of 1942 Eleanor Roosevelt went on a three-week tour of Great Britain to find out how the British were facing up to the war effort and pay a visit to the American troops stationed there. That trip was followed in August-September 1943 by a visit to the Pacific front, and in 1944 one to the Caribbean to take stock of the American soldiers’ situation