Office of the Historian

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

President Roosevelt to Prime Minister Churchill 1

[Excerpts]
top secret
priority
[Warm Springs, Georgia,2]
9 December 1944.

Number 672. Top Secret and Personal from the President for the Prime Minister.

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I think I can leave after Inauguration Day. I hoped that Uncle Joe could come to Rome or Malta or Taormina or Egypt but if he will not—and insists on the Black Sea—I could do it even at great difficulty on account of Congress. Harriman suggested Baturn which has an excellent climate. You and I could fly there from Malta or Athens, sending ahead one of my transport Flagships on which to live. Yalta is also intact, though the roadstead is open and we should probably have to live ashore.

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Roosevelt
  1. Sent to the United States Naval Attaché, London, via Navy channels.↩
  2. Roosevelt was at Warm Springs, Georgia, from November 28 to December 18, inclusive, 1944 (New York Times, December 20, 1944, p. 15).↩