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

Notter File, Box 168: Stettinius Diary

Memorandum by the Under Secretary of State (Stettinius)¹

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Sixth Day, Monday, August 28, 1944.

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(5) General. (Mr. Hopkins joined the meeting² at this point.) I inquired if his³ plans of meeting the Prime Minister were sufficiently definite for him to indicate whether he wished us to prepare any special notes for him covering the security conversations⁴ to take with him. He said he would like to have such a memo prepared⁵ but that he would not take the initiative in discussing the international organization with the Prime Minister but that he should be briefed in case the Prime Minister brought it up. He intimated he expected his conversation with the Prime Minister to relate chiefly to military matters.

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1. In the form of a daily record, based on personal conversations, correspondence, telegrams, minutes, and other documents pertaining to Stettinius’ activities during the conversations on the creation of a world organization held at the Dumbarton Oaks estate in Washington, D.C.
2. Roosevelt and Stettinius had been having a private conversation until Hopkins joined them. For other extracts from Stettinius’ record for August 28, 1944, see Foreign Relations, 1944, vol. i, pp. 743–746.
3. i.e., Roosevelt’s.
4. i.e., the Dumbarton Oaks conversations.
5. Cf. post, pp. 36–37.