Office of the Historian

The British Prime Minister (Churchill) to President Roosevelt 90

[London,] 14 June 1944.

703. 1. Your number 560:91 I am deeply grateful to you for your reply to my number 700. I have asked the Foreign Secretary to convey the information to Monsieur Molotov and to make it clear that the reason for the three months limit is in order that we should not prejudge the question of establishing post-war spheres of influence.

[Here follow comments by Prime Minister Churchill on Italian affairs, the visit of General Charles de Gaulle to France and military government in France, and the Prime Minister’s visit to the Normandy beachhead.]

  1. Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y. Paraphrase sent to the Secretary of State by President Roosevelt on June 30.↩
  2. Dated June 12, p. 121.↩