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

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

President Roosevelt to Prime Minister Churchill¹

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[Washington,] 23 August 1944.

Number 602, personal and top secret, from the President for the Former Naval Person.

Referring to our agreement that the Octagon Conference should be on the Teheran scale I find by consultation with my Chiefs of Staff with which I am in agreement that the Teheran scale on the American Staff included the four Chiefs of Staff with their eleven military assist ants, a total of fifteen officers.²

I am therefore limiting those officers who will go to Quebec with me to fifteen, not counting Leahy, Watson, Brown and McIntire.

Roosevelt

1. Sent to the United States Naval Attaché, London, via Navy channels.
2. In a letter of August 26, 1944, to Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Roosevelt stated: “… I am pleading with Winston not to bring a large staff with him. The meeting is supposed to be on the Teheran side where I had a staff of fifteen Americans and Winston had the same. This did not include our two or three personal aides.” For the full text of this letter, see F. D. R.: His Personal Letters, 1928–1945, edited by Elliott Roosevelt assisted by Joseph P. Lash (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950), vol. ii, p. 1536.