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

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to the Commander in Chief, Allied Force Headquarters (Eisenhower)

secret
urgent

[Washington,] September 8, 1943.

From President and Prime Minister to General Eisenhower, Algiers.

We agree with line you are taking as indicated in your 387¹ and are withholding all announcements here and in London until we know what you have said and done.²

Roosevelt
Churchill

1. Supra.
2. Eisenhower broadcast his announcement of the armistice (see ante, p. 1267) at 6:30 p.m., Algiers time, September 8, 1943. See Garland and Smyth, p. 508. A draft of this telegram, in Leahy’s handwriting, signed by Roosevelt and initialed by Churchill, is in the Roosevelt Papers.