Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the President¹

secret

London, 4 November 1943.

Personal and secret Winant to The President.

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Last week end Smuts and I were with the Prime Minister at Chequers. The withdrawing of landing craft from the Italian zone of action, the possibility of destruction by the rocket guns, the Greek islands, and the timing of the second front all troubled him. I think you will find that the Staff meetings will develop differences of immediate and future military planning that need to be settled.

1. Apparently sent via military channels.
2. For a further excerpt from this telegram, see ante, p. 64.