Foreign Relations of the United States, The Conferences at Washington, 1941–1942, and Casablanca, 1943

Editorial Note

No official record of this conversation has been found. The information set forth above regarding the hour of the meeting and the participants is taken from Nelson, p. 185; the date of January 3 is derived from Churchill’s telegram of January 4 to Attlee, reporting on the results of various meetings on supply issues (The Grand Alliance, p. 690). According to Nelson’s account, the discussion concerned the raising of production estimates for munitions of war, particularly Roosevelt’s goals of 45,000 tanks and 60,000 planes which “startled” Nelson.