Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

President Roosevelt to Prime Minister Churchill¹

secret
priority

[Washington,] October 21, 1943.

Personal and secret, Number 391, from the President to the Former Naval Person.

Last night I received the following from U. J.:

[Here follows the message of October 19, 1943, printed ante, p. 33.]

I am asking Hull to deliver the following to U. J. at once:

[Here follows the message printed supra.]

The possibility of Teheran is out because I find the time risks are flatly impossible to take. I hope you can find some way of having Eden back this up.

Roosevelt

1. Sent to the United States Naval Attaché, London, via Navy channels.