Editorial Note
A verbatim transcript of this press conference is in the Roosevelt Papers. Roosevelt first reviewed in very general terms the work of the Second Quebec Conference, expressed hope for the surrender of Germany, and discussed joint action against Japan and logistic problems in the Pacific. He stated specifically that questions of command in the Pacific War had not been discussed, and he described the division of responsibility among Mountbatten, MacArthur, and Nimitz. Churchill then commented on the results of the Conference and on British and Canadian participation in the war against Japan. Mackenzie King made brief closing remarks. For a substantively complete text of the transcript of this press conference, see Rosenman, pp. 260–268. For the text of the Quebec Conference Communiqué released to the press at Quebec on September 16, 1944, see post, p. 477.