Office of the Historian

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt 1

[Excerpts]2
top secret
London, 27 November 1944.

Prime Minister to President Roosevelt Personal and Top Secret Number 834.

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3. Your last paragraph.3 We have not got to this point yet and I agree with you we should collect a good many arms from the Germans. [Page 288] Still, I think when American divisions begin to return home there would be a strong case for their leaving some of their heavy weapons and equipment behind for the French to take over the job.

Prime
  1. Sent by the United States Military Attaché, London, via Army channels.↩
  2. Other portions of this telegram are printed ante, p. 19.↩
  3. Supra.↩