Foreign Relations of the United States, Conferences at Washington and Quebec, 1943

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

President Roosevelt to Prime Minister Mackenzie King ¹

Washington, May 14, 1943.

I am delighted that you could accept my invitation to come to Washington next week and I am looking forward with real anticipation to seeing you and talking to you.² I hope you can get here Wednesday afternoon and come straight to White House. We will have Pacific War Council meeting Thursday at noon.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1. The Department’s copy of this message is filed under 033.4211 King, W. L. Mackenzie/68a.
2. No record has been found of previous correspondence between Roosevelt and Mackenzie King on the subject of the visit to Washington.