Roosevelt Papers: Telegram
Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt1
Former Naval Person to President Roosevelt. Personal and most secret. No. 436.
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[Page 28]4. Your number 374. Not hearing from you, I did not persist in the ship enticing idea but I don’t think it would have been accepted by Uncle Joe anyhow. On September 25, I sent him the telegram contained in my immediately following and received last night his reply.2 I hope you will approve of all this as good and careful arrangements should be made. This plan would be convenient if you still want to invite the Generalissimo to meet you in Cairo on our return from Cairo 3. I do not think you will find the journey from Cairo to Cairo 3 a burden. It is only about six hours. It would be a convenience if one of your security authorities came over here to work up the whole cover plan. I expect to start from here about the end of October and will meet you with the greatest pleasure in Cairo or at any other point you fix. May I advise your considering seriously coming across in a fast cruiser and only using the air for the various hops across Africa. I shall be moving about among the armies till you arrive.