Office of the Historian

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt1

secret
London, 9 March 1944.

613. Prime Minister to President Roosevelt. Personal and secret.…2

1.
You will remember that we discussed the dollar balances in Cairo on December 8th and that I gave a memorandum to Harry.3 [Page 879] I certainly understood that you felt we ought not to be treated worse than France or Russia in these matters.…

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  1. Presumably sent via military channels.↩
  2. For the full text of this telegram, see Churchill, p. 697.↩
  3. Roosevelt left Cairo on the morning of December 7, 1943. For what is believed to be the memorandum given to Harry Hopkins, see ante, p. 822.↩