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President Roosevelt to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek 93

[Washington,] November 8, 1943.

No. 3788. Many thanks for your message.93a I am leaving for North Africa in 2 or 3 days and I hope to get to Cairo the 21st. Churchill will meet me there. We hope to meet Marshal Stalin in Persia about the 26th or 27th. However I would prefer that you and Churchill and I meet before that. Therefore can you try to reach Cairo by the 22nd of November? We will arrange good accommodations and guard for you and your party in or near Cairo. Please let me know as soon as you can.

Roosevelt
  1. Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N. Y. The text of this message was repeated by President Roosevelt to Prime Minister Churchill in telegram No. 413, November 8, 1943.↩
  2. November 2, p. 156.↩