Office of the Historian

Editorial Note

In the course of compiling the present volume a number of hitherto unpublished documents were found in which important participants in the Cairo and Tehran Conferences made factual statements respecting the proceedings, or portions of the proceedings, at the Conferences themselves. Since these statements supplement the contemporary Conference records, it was felt worthwhile to include them in this volume, although a number of them will doubtless be published in subsequent volumes of Foreign Relations.

In addition to the memoirs and other authoritative sources listed in the Introduction of this volume, the reader may wish to consult the following publications containing post-Conference statements made by participants in the Cairo and Tehran Conferences:

Radio address by President Roosevelt on December 24, 1943, Department of State Bulletin, vol. X, January 1, 1944, pp. 4–5.

Annual message of the President to Congress, January 11, 1944, ibid., January 15, 1944, vol. X, pp. 76–77; H. Doc. 377, 78th Congress.

Press conferences of President Roosevelt, The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, edited by Samuel I. Rosenman:

December 17, 1943 —1943 volume, pp. 549–553
May 26, 1944 —1944–1945 volume, p. 137
May 30, 1944 —ibid., p. 142
June 6, 1944 —ibid., pp. 155, 157

Informal remarks of President Roosevelt, Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt:

  • To the personnel at Camp Amirabad, December 2, 1943—1943 volume, p. 538
  • To a group of military police at Cairo, December 6, 1943—ibid., p. 540
  • To the officers and men of the U. S. S. Iowa, December 16, 1943—ibid., p. 547
  • To the Advertising War Council Conference, March 8, 1944—1944–1945 volume, p. 99
  • To the delegates at Dumbarton Oaks, August 23, 1944—ibid., p. 233

Foreign Secretary Eden’s speech in the House of Commons, December 14, 1943, Parliamentary Debates, 1943–1944, vol. 395, cols. 1424–1435.

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  • Testimony of George C. Marshall, Military Situation in the Far East, part 1, pp. 551–552.
  • Testimony of Patrick J. Hurley, ibid., part 4, pp. 2833–2835.
  • Testimony of W. Averell Harriman, ibid., part 5, pp. 3329–3334.
  • Testimony of Charles E. Bohlen, The Nomination of Charles E. Bohlen To Be United States Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, 83d Congress, 1st session, pp. 26–27, 29, 62–63, 65, 125.
  • Documents printed in Foreign Relations, The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945, pp. 202–205, 332–333, 378–379, 768.
  • Documents printed in United States Relations With China, pp. 488, 491, 499, 557, 558.