Office of the Historian

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

President Roosevelt to Prime Minister Churchill1

top secret
priority
[Hyde Park,] 1 September 1944.

Number 614, personal and top secret, from the President to the Prime Minister.

So happy your temperature is normal but this is the time to go slow. Remember I am entirely free and can go to Octagon literally any time if the doctors suggest a postponement for a week or several weeks. I suggest you make Clemmie2 the arbiter. The armies keep rolling along and a few weeks of delay on our part will not slow them up.

Roosevelt
  1. Sent to the White House Map Room; forwarded to the United States Naval Attaché, London, via Navy channels.↩
  2. Mrs. Churchill.↩