Office of the Historian

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

The President to the Secretary of State1

secret
[Cairo,] 3 December 1943.

In reference your message transmitted as White 67,2 in view of the fact that the Russians have appointed the Russian Ambassador3 as Soviet Representative on the Advisory Council (Commission] in London, I suggest that you announce Winant’s appointment.4

. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

My conferences with the Generalissimo5 were very satisfactory and I liked him. He is delighted with the results of the Moscow Conference.6

In Teheran things went on the whole very well and better than I expected. Marshal Stalin6 and I worked together toward objectives which turned out to be very similar. I will bring you the minutes of all that was said and done. Molotov sent you his very warm personal regards.

Churchill and I are to see President Inonu here in Cairo and then I will head westward.

  1. Sent to the White House Map Room, via military channels, and forwarded by the Map Room to Hull.↩
  2. Telegram of November 30, 1943, ante, p. 625.↩
  3. Fedor Tarasovich Gusev, Soviet Ambassador at London.↩
  4. This was done in a press release dated December 4, published in the Department of State Bulletin, vol. ix, December 4, 1943, p. 393.↩
  5. Chiang Kai-shek.↩
  6. At this point a notation on the source text indicates a garble in the code groups.↩
  7. At this point a notation on the source text indicates a garble in the code groups.↩