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

023.1/9–743

The President to the Secretary of State

Washington, September 7, 1943.

Memorandum for Hon. Cordell Hull

Please speak to me about our publishing the notes of the conversations between Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau in Paris in 1919.¹

I have a distinct hesitation (a) because Lloyd George is still alive and (b) because notes of these conversations ought not to have been taken down anyway.

F[ranklin] D. R[oosevelt]

1. The reference is to the proposed publication of the minutes of the meetings of the Council of Four in Foreign Relations, The Paris Peace Conference, 1919. The British Government had been asked to clear the minutes for publication, and Roosevelt’s interest in the subject presumably arose from a conversation initiated by Churchill. Concerning further discussion of the subject between Roosevelt and Churchill at Hyde Park on September 12, 1943, see post, p. 1338.