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

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt¹

top secret

London, 4 August 1944.

Prime Minister to President Roosevelt Personal and Top Secret. Number 741.

As U.J. cannot come to Octagon,² would it not be well to invite Molotov?³

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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 in Alaska, as telegram No. Red 234.
2. No messages between Churchill and Roosevelt have been found explaining the appearance of the code word Octagon in their correspondence at this time.
3. The Map Room files indicate that Roosevelt did not reply to this message.