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Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

President Roosevelt to Prime Minister Churchill 1

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[Washington,] 26 November 1944.

Number 658. Top Secret and Personal from the President for the Prime Minister.

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In regard to paragraph six of your 825,3 there should be no difficulty for us in equipping so much of a French occupation force as they may need in a disarmed Germany from the military equipment that we will take from the German Army when it surrenders or is destroyed.

In any event, I have at the present time no authority under which it would be possible for me to equip any post-war foreign army, and the prospect of getting such authority from the Congress is more than doubtful.

Roosevelt
  1. Sent to the United States Naval Attaché, London, via Navy channels.↩
  2. Other portions of this telegram are printed ante, p. 18.↩
  3. Supra.↩