Office of the Historian

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt1

secret
London, June 20, 1943.

Former Naval Person to President Roosevelt personal and most secret No. 322. I send you the telegram to Stalin in the final form in which it went.

[Here follows, with minor changes, the message quoted in Churchill’s telegram 310, June 13, 1943. The following changes were made in the portion quoted above: “I and my advisers believe” in place of “I personally believe”; and “if secrecy be desired” in place of “if desired”.]

  1. Received via War Department channels. Roosevelt was at Hyde Park, New York, June 17–22, 1943. This message was forwarded to him by the White House on June 21.↩