Office of the Historian

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt1

secret
London, 2 November 1943.

Prime Minister to President Roosevelt personal and most secret No. 487.

Further to my No. 484,2 Chiefs of Staff think it would be simpler and more secure if we rendezvoused around 17th at Malta. This would avoid our ships touching either at Oran or Gibraltar, both of which are to some extent under observation. Please consider this simplification.

  1. Apparently sent to Washington via military channels, and forwarded by the White House Map Room to Roosevelt at Hyde Park.↩
  2. Ante, p. 60.↩