Roosevelt Papers: Telegram
Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt1
Former Naval Person to President. Personal and most secret. Number 411.
Following is reply being sent to message in my number 410 referred to in Para 3 of my number 409. Begins:
“Prime Minister to Marshal Stalin. Most secret and personal.
“Your telegram of August 9 gives me the opportunity to offer you my heartfelt congratulations on the recent most important victories gained by the Russian Armies at Orel and Byelgorod opening the way to your further advances towards Bryansk and Kharkov. The defeats of the German Army on this front are milestones to our final victory.
“I have arrived at the Citadel, Quebec, and start this afternoon to meet the President at his private home. Meanwhile, the Staffs will be in conference here and the President and I will join them at the end of the week. I will show the President your telegram about meeting of our responsible representatives in the near future which certainly seems to be most desirable. I quite understand you cannot leave the front at this critical period when you are actually directing the victorious movement of your Armies.
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