Editorial Note
According to the Log (ante, p. 297) the following foreign persons called on the President during the afternoon of November 24:
Egyptian—Cabinet Chief Hassanayn and Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Nahas.
Greek—King George II, Prince Paul, and Prime Minister Tsouderos.
British—Ambassador to Egypt Killearn, Generals Wilson and Stone, Admiral Willis, and Air Chief Marshal Douglas.
Yugoslav—King Peter II and Prime Minister Purić.
According to Leahy, p. 200, the President also had brief talks on the same afternoon with Turkish Prime Minister Saracoğlu, British Ambassador to Turkey Knatchbull-Hugessen, and the Egyptian heir apparent (Mohammad Ali).
The calls were apparently of brief duration and were primarily of a courtesy nature. No memoranda of these conversations appear to have been made either by or for the President. There is some evidence (post, p. 864) that Roosevelt discussed a trusteeship for Indochina with the Turks and the Egyptians in the course of this trip. There is no indication, however, of when these conversations took place. His conversation with King Peter is, however, described in the latter’s book, A King’s Heritage, pp. 195–196. According to this account, the subjects discussed included the reconciling of Commander Tito and General Mihailović, the advisability of Allied landings on the Dalmatian or the French coast and the development of a joint Allied offensive against Germany on a fixed date.
A conversation at Cairo between the President and General Wilson is recounted in Field Marshal Lord Wilson’s, Eight Years Overseas, 1939–1947, p. 187. It would appear from that source that the conversation took place during the Second Cairo Conference, but the Log for the period December 2–7, 1943 (post, p. 655) does not show that Roosevelt conferred with Wilson during the Second Cairo Conference. According to Wilson, the conversation revolved mainly around the resistance movements in Greece and Yugoslavia.