Roosevelt Papers: Telegram
President Roosevelt to Prime Minister Churchill1
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Number 404. Personal and secret from the President for the Former Naval Person.
Your 479. Hull’s departure from Moscow has meant two-day delay in his getting home. It is essential I see him before I myself leave, as you can readily understand. I had hoped to get three days in North Africa before reaching Cairo. I can, however, do some of the North African and Italian business on the way back. Therefore, I still hope to arrive Cairo by the twentieth by flying there directly I reach the harbor. But, if wind and weather are bad, I might not make Cairo until the twenty-second. I think my ship will take me to Oran.
Ever so many thanks for offering to make arrangements at Cairo, which we accept with pleasure. If any hitch develops there we can, of course, meet in Alexandria, the staff living ashore and we on our respective ships.
I am wiring Generalissimo to prepare to meet us in the general neighborhood of Cairo about November twenty-fifth.
- Sent to the United States Naval Attaché London, via the White House Map Room and Navy channels.↩