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CBS World News takes you now to London for a special broadcast by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who will be interviewed by CBS correspondent Bob Trout at the opening ceremonies of a new club for merchant seamen somewhere in Great Britain.

This is Scotland. It's 8.30 in the evening, a dark night in Glasgow, Scotland's great fort on the river Here tonight, in a building that was a hotel just a week ago, there's opening a club for American merchant seamen, the first American merchant sailor's club in any foreign port, but not the last.

Grasco's club is the beginning. It's the first of several to be established in British ports, and there will be other clubs in other countries for the men who sail the seas under the American flag.

Since early morning, American seamen have been coming into the club to register for the 150 which were being used by hotel guests just a week ago. In a week the building has been transformed by British workmen rushing the job for the United Seaman Service under the auspices of the warshipping administration.

And now tonight for the opening the guests are gathered in what beginning tomorrow will be the Club Dining Room. A picture of the President of the United States is on the cream-colored wall and the American flag hangs behind the speaker's platform.

And here on that platform are the guest of honor, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who has just come over to Scotland after her trip to Northern Ireland, Mr. P. J. Noel Baker, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport, the Lord Provost of the City of Glasgow, Mr. John M. Bigger wearing his chain of office, and Mr. Charles Hogan, the