Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the President1

secret

To the President from Winant.

After reading the Prime Minister’s number 530 to you, I wanted you to know that a message from Mister Hull instructed me to take up the question of what was said in relation to unconditional surrender at Teheran with the Prime Minister on his return to London2… I hope the Prime Minister’s query to you was in a form acceptable to you. Eden meant it to be so and the Prime Minister followed his suggestion in his cable to you. Eden thought that the subject had come up at a luncheon conversation at the Russian Embassy. There has been no further word from Stalin.

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  1. Presumably sent via military channels.
  2. See ante, p. 855.