Office of the Historian

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt1

top secret
London, 31 August 1944.

Prime Minister to President Roosevelt Personal and Top Secret No. 773.

I had a sudden attack of my former malady with a temperature of between 103 and 104 degrees two hours before my plane reached home. However with vigilance, care and M and B,2 I am now normal again and have every hope and intention of coming in the Queen Mary on the fifth instant, thus reaching Octagon on the 10th. The voyage at sea will be better for me than a journey by air.

  1. Sent by the United States Military Attaché, London, via Army channels.↩
  2. A drug which had also been prescribed when Churchill had had pneumonia in February 1943. Concerning the Prime Minister’s health immediately before the Second Quebec Conference, see Moran, p. 189.↩