Office of the Historian

Hopkins Papers

Statement by President Roosevelt1

[Washington, May 25, 1943.]

Statement From the President

The recent conference of the Combined Staffs in Washington has ended in complete agreement on future operations in all theatres of the war.

(To be given out in Washington on arrival of Prime Minister in Torch .)

  1. There are no indications of the circumstances in which this statement was prepared, but the fact that it was used as a substitute for the much longer draft joint statement, supra, suggests that it was prepared by Roosevelt and Churchill during their meeting on the evening of May 25, 1943; see the editorial note, ante, p. 221. The statement was given to the press by the White House on the afternoon of May 27, 1943, as reported in Roosevelt’s message No. 276 to Churchill, infra. ↩