740.0011 EW 1939/32015
The Presidents Secretary (Early) to the Secretaries of State (Hull), War (Stimson), and the Navy (Knox), and to the Chief, United States Secret Service (Wilson)
Confidential memorandum for:
- The Secretary of State
- The Secretary of War
- The Secretary of the Navy
- Chief, United States Secret Service
Supplementing my earlier confidential memorandum of this day, I am now informing you that I have just received the following confidential report from Byron Price, Director, Office of Censorship:
“The following supplements my memorandum earlier today and discloses that Cairo is now becoming even more definite.
“At 12:03 P. M., E. W. T., today this message reached New York by RCA Radio from Cairo, sent by MacKenzie at Cairo to the New York Daily News:
‘Can you arrange through open line AdCairo Uncan do anything this end. Stop. Vital get sure quickest link-up Cairo-New York before Thursday.’”1
In bringing this supplemental memorandum to your attention may I emphasize again the need of rendering every aid and cooperation to Mr. Price in the interest of security.
Secretary to the President
- November 18, 1943.↩