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

Hopkins Papers: Telegram

President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to Marshal Stalin ¹

most secret

Quadrant , 19 August 1943.

President and Prime Minister to Marshal Stalin. Most Secret and Personal.

Reference our immediately preceding telegram.²

1. Operation referred to in paragraph 1 is attack on West Coast of Italian mainland. Code name in paragraph 3 refers to Portuguese Atlantic islands.

2. Following instructions to General Eisenhower referred to in paragraph 2. Begins: (Here insert paraphrased text of Fan 196³) Ends.

1. Sent to the War Cabinet Office in London as Churchill’s telegram No. Welfare 218 and forwarded to the British Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Clark Kerr). Concerning the delivery of this message in Moscow, see ante, p. 1062, fn. 1.
2. Supra.
3. For the text of telegram No. Fan 196 as dispatched from Quebec on August 18, 1943, see ante, p. 1060. For the paraphrased text of this telegram as included in the message delivered to Stalin, see Stalin’s Correspondence, vol. i, pp. 144–146; vol. ii, pp. 80–82.