Whakaotihia te rerenga kōrero e whai ake nei: I nga tau tuatahi o te hononga o Ingarangi me Amerika, ko nga Ingarihi te hunga i whiwhi i ta ratou i hiahia ai. I te Huihuinga o Rānana i te Paenga-whāwhā o te tau 1942, ko Brooke raua ko Churchill te mea i pohehe i a General George Marshall, te Tumuaki o te Ope Taua o Amerika, mo nga whakaaro o Ingarangi mo te taunga wawe ki France. I te Huihuinga o Casablanca i te marama o Hānuere 1943, i whakatauhia kia
Ka whakaekea a Sicily, i raro i te mana o General Dwight D. Eisenhower, he whakatau i whakaroa ai te whakaekenga o Uropi ki te Hauauru tae noa ki te tau 1944. Ko te whakaaetanga o Casablanca he whakataunga, i whakatauhia e te hoa tawhito a Brooke, a Field Marshal Sir John Dill, te Tumuaki o te British Joint Staff Mission i Washington DC. "He nama nui taku ki a ia [Dill] mō tana āwhina i taua wā, i ētahi atu hoki", i tuhituhi a Brooke i muri i te pakanga.