Roosevelt Papers
President Roosevelt to President Inönü of Turkey 1
very secret
[
Casablanca
,] January 23,
1943.
President Inönü: The Prime Minister, who has been conferring with me, is going shortly to Cairo. He will in all probability wish to confer with you or with your Prime Minister at some convenient secret place. In case Prime Minister Churchill does seek a conference, I earnestly hope you or your Prime Minister will find it possible to meet him.2
Roosevelt
- This message was sent by Churchill to the British Foreign Office with instructions to deliver it to the American Embassy at London, which in turn was to relay it to the American Ambassador at Ankara, who was to transmit the message to President Inönü as well as to concert with his British colleague concerning the meeting proposed in the message. Telegram 651, January 25, 1943, 8 p.m., from Chargé Matthews in London to the Secretary of State for the President reported that the President’s message had been received from the British Foreign Office and had been transmitted to the American Embassy in Ankara for delivery to President Inönü ( Foreign Relations, 1943, vol. iv, p. 1058). The President’s message was delivered to President Inönü on January 27.↩
- For additional documentation regarding the exchange of messages between President Roosevelt and the Turkish President regarding the conference between Prime Minister Churchill and President Inönü at Adana, Turkey, January 30 and 31, 1943, see Foreign Relations, 1943, vol. iv, pp. 1058 ff.↩