Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

President Roosevelt to Prime Minister Churchill ¹

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[Washington,] 18 November 1944.

Number 649, Personal and Top Secret from the President for the Prime Minister.

Your 822.² I am sending you in a message to follow a copy of a message I have just sent to Uncle Joe on the subject of our next meeting.³ It does not seem to me that the French Provisional Government should take part in our next conference as such a debating society would confuse our essential issues. The three of us can discuss the questions you raise in regard to turning over parts of Germany to France after the collapse of Naziism and the further problems of helping to build up a strong France.⁴

... I shall be glad to have your views about the time and place of our next meeting.

Roosevelt

1. Sent to the United States Naval Attaché, London, via Navy channels.
2. Ante, p. 15, and post, pp. 284–286.
3. Sent as No. 650, of the same date. For the text of the message to Stalin, see No. 124 from Roosevelt to Stalin, supra.
4. Three sentences of this omission are printed post, p. 286.