Office of the Historian

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt1

secret
London, 4 March 1944.

601. Prime Minister to President Roosevelt personal and most secret.

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About the Italian ships et cetera. I was much startled by the press accounts of your talk with them. The Russians have never asked for [Page 877] one-third of the Italian ships, but only for the specific vessels mentioned at Moscow and agreed to by us at Teheran. See list which follows. We have never agreed, as you know, to anything beyond this.…

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  1. Sent by the United States Military Attaché, London, via Army channels.↩