1961 The Bermuda Meeting

The Bermuda Meeting special cachet

Type: Cacheted Cover
Date: 21st December 1961
CDS: 5-PM 21 1961 DEC HAMILTON BERMUDA / COME TO BERMUDA THE ISLES OF REST
Cachet: THE BERMUDA MEETING 1961 Dec 21-22
Handstamped: 2 LLOYDS BANK LIMITED CITY OFFICE 27 DEC 1961 OPENED AND CHECKED BY
Envelope: The Bank of Bermuda Limited, Bermuda
Address: The Manager, Lloyds Bank Limited, 72 Lombard Street, London, E.C.3, ENGLAND / PER AIR MAIL
Stamps: QEII Definitive 1/3d

The Bermuda Meeting

In 1961 Bermuda was the focus of global attention as the historic two-day John Kennedy/Harold Macmillan Big Two summit meeting took place at Government House.

US President John F. Kennedy arrived at Kindley Air Force Base on December 21, 1961 to meet with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan about geo-political and nuclear policy, the third summit convened here following the three-way parley between President Dwight Eisenhower, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French Premier Joseph Laniel at the Mid Ocean Club in 1953 and a 1957 Eisenhower-Macmillan meeting.