Office of the Historian

740.0011 EW 1939/32185: Telegram

The Counselor of Embassy in the United Kingdom (Bucknell) to the Secretary of State

London, December 4, 1943.

8476. Announcement by Moscow radio of Tehran conference is carried in late editions of this morning’s London papers, but [Page 642] last not received in time for editorial comment. Speculative stories during past two days had been largely based on German press and radio campaign to prepare enemy populations for anticipated news of meeting. Senator Connally’s speech at Fort Worth was also widely reported.1

Bucknell
  1. In a radio address at Fort Worth, Texas, on December 2, 1943, Connally had said that “another great conference is taking place in the Middle East between President Roosevelt, Marshal Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill” (New York Times, December 3, 1943, p. 5, col. 5).↩