Office of the Historian

811.458 Poland/55: Telegram

The Polish Prime Minister (Sikorski) to President Roosevelt 93

Gibraltar, July 4, 1943—1:30 a.m.
[Received 11:29 p.m.]

CO/5255. I wish today, the Fourth of July, to pay my sincere homage to the Great American Nation, especially as I am spending it as a guest of the Governor at Gibraltar, where I have met some of your officers. I am convinced that under you, Mr. President, the inspired leader of the American Nation, and in close collaboration with Great Britain, the victory will soon come to the United Nations. This victory will not only crush the enemy but also bring into being your principles of freedom and justice.94

[Sikorski]
  1. Despatched by the Governor of Gibraltar, Lt Gen. Sir Frank N. Mason MacFarlane.↩
  2. At noon (London time) on July 5, Ambassador Biddle sent the following telegram to Washington: “For the President, the Secretary and the Under Secretary. British Air Ministry informs me General Sikorski, his daughter, Madame Lesznowska, and his Chief of Staff, General Klemetski, met their death by plane accident at Gibraltar yesterday.” (860C.002/319)↩