Editorial Note
Roosevelt made no record of this conversation. The information set forth above is derived from the President’s Appointment Calendar (Roosevelt Papers). According to the account in Pickersgill, pp. 513–514, this was a farewell meeting between the President and the Prime Minister. Matters discussed included Roosevelt’s letter of May 5, 1943, to Stalin asking the Soviet leader for an informal meeting, and Roosevelt’s proposal for a summer trip to Canada. For the text of the letter from Roosevelt to Stalin, see Foreign Relations, The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943, p. 3. On May 24, 1943, following his return to Ottawa, Prime Minister Mackenzie King sent a message of thanks to the President; see post, p. 335.