Office of the Historian

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

The President to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)1

top secret
priority
[Aboard the Presidential Special,]
18 July 1944.

Number 29. Personal and Top Secret. From the President for Ambassador Harriman.

Replying to your message ... [of July 18], you are authorized to delete before delivery the following sentence:

“Your Army is doing so magnificently that the hop would be much shorter to Scotland than the one taken by Molotov two years ago.”

Roosevelt
  1. Sent to the United States Naval Attaché, Moscow, via Navy channels.↩