Office of the Historian

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt 1

most secret
London, 4 August 1943.

Former Naval Person to President Roosevelt personal and most secret number 402.

[Reference my 401.2]

I find we had already received the proposed terms but by an oversight they were not placed before me at the time of my telegraphing to you. They and the question of declaring Rome an Open City will be immediately considered by the Cabinet and I hope to send you a reply today.

  1. Channel of transmission to Washington not indicated. Forwarded by the White House Map Room to Roosevelt, who was then at Birch Island. Information copies were sent to Hull by the White House Map Room and by Halifax on August 4, 1943 (740.0011 EW/8–443).↩
  2. Supra. The reference in brackets was not in the message as first received, but was added by a correction telegraphed from London on August 4, 1943.↩