Office of the Historian

740.0011 European War 1939/30633

Memorandum by the Assistant Chief of the Division of European Affairs (Hickerson)

[Washington,] August 10, 1943, 12:45 p.m.

The following was dictated over the telephone by Mr. Atherton, American Minister to Canada:

To the President from Mr. Mackenzie King.

“Prime Minister Churchill has arrived in Canada. I am meeting Mr. Churchill and his party en route to Quebec. We will go direct to The Citadel where Mr. Churchill will be the guest of the Government of Canada during the course of his stay. Mr. Churchill’s arrival in Canada will be announced at 4 o’clock in terms of the communiqué agreed upon. Communiqué will be issued under Quebec dateline.”1

  1. This memorandum bears the following manuscript endorsement by Hickerson: “(Telephoned to Gen. Watson at the White House 12:50 p.m. Aug. 10. J[ohn] D H[ickerson])”. Watson, in a memorandum of the same date, passed the message on to Roosevelt, who had returned to Washington from Birch Island on August 9. (Roosevelt Papers)↩