Office of the Historian

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt1

secret
London, 16 January, 1944.

Number 545. Prime Minister to President. Personal and most secret.

I. … My recollection is clear that nothing was said at Teheran about “one third” but that promise was made to meet the Russian claim put forward at Moscow to have transferred to them one battleship, one cruiser, eight destroyers, four submarines, and forty thousand tons of merchant shipping.

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  1. Presumably sent via military channels.↩