President Roosevelt to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek 84a
No. 3701. I have been very pleased to hear from you of your satisfaction with your meeting with Mountbatten and Somervell.84b
The Conference at Moscow84c has made splendid progress up to the moment and I am very hopeful that the results will be beneficial all around. I am pressing for the full blown partnership of China, Great Britain, Russia and the United States.
I am not yet sure whether Stalin can meet me but, under any circumstances, I am anxious to meet you with Churchill at a reasonably early date somewhere between the 20th and the 25th of November. I think Alexandria would be a good meeting place. There are good accommodations there.
I will bring a small staff with me including our highest ranking Army, Navy and Air officers. I should think the Conference would last about three days. I know you will not want to be away from China long, but it is far better for me to get away now than later.
I am looking forward to seeing you because I am sure there are many things that can only be satisfactorily settled if we can meet face to face. Please keep this very confidential.
- Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N. Y.↩
- Lt. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, Commanding General, U. S. Army Service Forces, had been on a visit to China.↩
- See pp. 819 ff. For text of the Four-Power Declaration of October 30 signed at Moscow, see Department of State Bulletin, November 6, 1943, p. 308.↩