Editorial Note
The document referred to in this volume as the President’s Log constitutes the major portion of the 83-page booklet entitled “The President’s Trip to the Crimea Conference and Great Bitter Lake, Egypt, January 22 to February 28, 1945”. This booklet, which was prepared by Lieutenant J. G. Rigdon and approved by the President’s Naval Aide, Vice Admiral Wilson Brown, has the following contents: List of the President’s Party, Itinerary, Chart Showing Travel Across Atlantic Ocean, Chart Showing Travel in Mediterranean and Black Sea Areas, Foreword, Log of the Trip, Report of the Crimea Conference, List of Saudi Arabian Guests, Memorandum of Conversations between King Ibn Saud and President Roosevelt (2–14–45), List of the Seaman Guard at Yalta.
The Malta Conference began on January 30, 1945, but President Roosevelt did not arrive until February 2, the last day of the conference. There is reproduced below the Log for February 2. The portions of the Log covering the Yalta Conference (February 4–11) are printed post, pp. 549–561.