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,] 26 November 1944.

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

Your 825.² Uncle Joe has now replied to my message in regard to the tripartite meeting forwarded to you in my 650.³

He expresses regret that my Naval advisors doubt the expediency of meeting on the shore of the Black Sea. He does not object to a meeting at the end of January or the beginning of February, but he has in mind that we shall choose as a meeting place one of the Soviet port cities. He must consider the opinion of his doctors that a long trip would be a danger to him.

He hopes that we will now or soon finally agree upon a meeting place that will be acceptable to all of us.

I have a feeling that we will not succeed in getting U. J. to travel beyond the Black Sea unless the Germans should have surrendered by that time.⁴

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Roosevelt

1. Sent to the United States Naval Attaché, London, via Navy channels.
2. Ante, p. 17.
3. See ante, p. 16, footnote 3.
4. The paragraphs here omitted are printed post, p. 287.