Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference at Quebec, 1944

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt¹

most secret

London, March 18, 1944.

No. 624. Prime Minister to President Roosevelt most secret and personal.

1. Winant gave me your letter² this morning. As you are so keen for the company of Inönü, I wonder whether you would care to spend Easter³ with me at Bermuda, I can arrive there on the 5th and we could separate on the 11th or earlier if you are pressed. I would not suggest bringing the great staffs but only the principals on the scale with which we went to Teheran.⁴ It is not so much that there are new departures in policy to be taken but there is a need after more than 90 days of separation for checking up and shaking together.

2. I am hardening for Overlord as the time gets nearer. Perhaps Marshall will show you a telegram I sent him.⁵

1. Sent by the United States Military Attaché, London, via Army channels.
2. i.e., a copy of a proposed letter from Roosevelt to President Inönü of Turkey. For information on the decision that this letter should not be delivered to Inönü, see Foreign Relations, 1944, vol. v, p. 821, fn. 15.
3. Easter in 1944 fell on April 9.
4. See Foreign Relations, The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943.
5. Not printed.