Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt1

top secret

Prime Minister to President Roosevelt personal and top secret number 692.

10. … I am deeply grieved that you cannot come before that very distant date.2 Let me know if I can help matters by a journey.

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  1. Sent to Washington by the United States Military Attaché, London, via Army channels; forwarded by the White House Map Room to Roosevelt, who was then at Charlottesville, Virginia, in telegram No. Red 51. For the full text of this message, see Churchill, Closing the Ring, p. 626.
  2. In a letter to Churchill dated May 20, 1944 (not printed), to which this telegram was a reply, Roosevelt had said: “I do not believe I can get away for over a month.” (Roosevelt Papers)