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

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt ¹

secret

London, May 4, 1943.

No. 293. Former Naval Person to President personal and most secret.

Your no 275. Thank you very much. I look forward to our early meeting. Am bringing Averell.² Accept my warmest congratulations on the brilliant advance of United States Troops to Mateur.³ This will greatly help the thrust which we shall make soon in the centre.

Prime

1. Transmitted via military channels.
2. W. Averell Harriman.
3. The American 1st Armored Division captured Mateur in Tunisia on May 3, 1943. For the account of this action, see Howe, chapter xxxiii.