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II. The First Quebec Conference
(August 14–24, 1943)
and Related Conversations at Hyde Park and Washington
(August 12–14 and September 1–12, 1943)

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Contents

4. Agenda and Arrangements for the Conference (Documents 164–207)
5. Substantive Preparatory Papers: (Documents 208–368)
- A. The war in Asia and the Pacific (Documents 209–218)
- B. The war in Europe and the Mediterranean (Documents 219–234)
- C. Special questions relating to Italy: peace feelers, surrender terms, declaration of Rome as an open city (Documents 235–306)
- D. Bases in the Azores (Documents 307–313)
- E. Bases in Ireland (Documents 314–315)
- F. The Soviet Union and the war (Documents 316–318)
- G. Cooperation with the United Kingdom in research on atomic energy (Documents 319–337)
- H. Creation of the Joint War Aid Committee, United States–Canada (Documents 338–345)
- I. Representation on the Combined Food Board (Document 346)
- J. Possible recognition of the French Committee of National Liberation (Documents 347–355)
- K. General policy toward Iran (Document 356)
- L. Issuance of an Anglo-American statement on Palestine (Document 357)
- M. Postwar civil aviation policy (Document 358)
- N. Postwar world organization (Documents 359–365)
- O. German territorial questions (Documents 366–367)
- P. Italian territorial questions and the political reconstruction of Italy (Document 368)
6. Preliminary Conversations at Hyde Park: (Documents 369–370)
- Editorial note
- Saturday, August 14, 1943 (Documents 369–370)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill dinner meeting (Documents 369–370)
7. Log of the President’s Visit to Canada (Documents 371–372)
8. Proceedings of the First Quebec Conference: (Documents 373–426)
- Saturday, August 14, 1943 (Documents 373–375)
  - Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 10:30 a.m. (Document 373)
  - Luncheon, 1:30 p.m. (Document 374)
  - Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 4:30 p.m. (Document 375)
- Sunday, August 15, 1943 (Documents 376–377)
  - Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 2:30 p.m. (Document 376)
  - Marshall–Churchill meeting, evening (Document 377)
- Monday, August 16, 1943 (Documents 378–379)
  - Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 2:30 p.m. (Document 378)
  - Harriman–Churchill meeting, afternoon (Document 379)
- Tuesday, August 17, 1943 (Documents 380–381)
  - Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 2:30 p.m. (Document 380)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill meeting, 11:30 p.m. (Document 381)
- Wednesday, August 18, 1943 (Documents 382–385)
  - Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 3 p.m. (Document 382)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill meeting, afternoon (Document 383)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill meeting, afternoon (Document 384)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill–Mackenzie King meeting, late evening (Document 385)
- Thursday, August 19, 1943 (Documents 386–391)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill luncheon meeting, 1:30 p.m. (Document 386)
  - Hopkins–Eden meeting (Document 387)
  - Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 2:30 p.m. (Document 388)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill meeting, afternoon (Document 389)
  - Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff with Roosevelt and Churchill, 5:30 p.m. (Document 390)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill dinner meeting, 9:30 p.m. (Document 391)
- Friday, August 20, 1943 (Documents 392–395)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill discussions (Document 392)
  - Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 2:30 p.m. (Document 393)
  - Hull–Eden meeting, afternoon (Document 394)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill dinner meeting, 9:30 p.m. (Document 395)
- Saturday, August 21, 1943 (Documents 396–404)
  - Roosevelt meeting with his advisers, forenoon (Document 396)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill luncheon meeting, early afternoon (Document 397)
  - Hull–Eden meeting, 1 p.m. (Document 398)
  - Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 2:30 p.m. (Document 399)
  - Hull–Mackenzie King meeting, about 4 p.m. (Document 400)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill meeting, late afternoon (Document 401)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill dinner meeting, evening (Document 402)
  - Hull–Eden meeting, 9 p.m. (Document 403)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill–Mackenzie King meeting, evening (Document 404)
- Sunday, August 22, 1943 (Documents 405–410)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill luncheon meeting, about 1 p.m. (Document 405)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill meeting, 5:30 p.m. (Documents 406–407)
  - Harriman–Bracken meeting, early evening (Document 408)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill dinner meeting, 8 p.m. (Document 409)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill meeting, 11 p.m. (Document 410)
- Monday, August 23, 1943 (Documents 411–419)
  - Roosevelt–Robertson meeting, forenoon (Document 411)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill–Soong luncheon meeting, 1:30 p.m. (Document 412)
  - Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 2:30 p.m. (Document 413)
  - Roosevelt–Mountbatten meeting, 5 p.m. (Document 414)
  - Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff with Roosevelt and Churchill, 5:30 p.m. (Document 415)
  - Hull–Eden meeting (Document 416)
  - Dunn–Cadogan meeting (Document 417)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill dinner meeting, evening (Document 418)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill meeting, 10 p.m. (Document 419)
- Tuesday, August 24, 1943 (Documents 420–426)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill meeting, forenoon (Document 420)
  - Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 10:30 a.m. (Document 421)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill–Mackenzie King press conference, 12:15 p.m. (Document 422)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill–Mackenzie King luncheon meeting, early afternoon (Document 423)
  - Harriman–Eden conversation, afternoon (Document 424)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill dinner meeting, August 24, 1943, evening, The Citadel (Document 425)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill meeting, evening (Document 426)
9. Conference Documents and Supplementary Papers: (Documents 427–531)
- A. The war in Asia and the Pacific (Documents 427–445)
- B. The war in Europe and the Mediterranean (Documents 446–469)
- C. Special questions relating to Italy: peace feelers, surrender terms, declaration of Rome as an open city, military operations (Documents 470–497)
- D. Bases in the Azores (Documents 498–499)
- E. Scale of possible attack on North America (Document 500)
- F. Tripartite meeting with the Soviet Union (Document 501)
- G. Cooperation with the United Kingdom in research on atomic energy (Documents 502–503)
- H. Propaganda coordination (Document 504)
- I. Policy toward Spain (Documents 505–506)
- J. Possible recognition of the French Committee of National Liberation (Documents 507–517)
- K. Policy toward Austria (Document 518)
- L. The Soviet-Polish boundary (Document 519)
- M. Issuance of an Anglo-American statement on Palestine (Document 520)
- N. Final documents of the First Quebec Conference: (Documents 521–531)
  - (1) Agreement relating to atomic energy (Document 521)
  - (2) Press release announcing the creation of the Joint War Aid Committee, United States–Canada (Document 522)
  - (3) Declaration on German crimes in Poland (Document 522a)
  - (4) Reports of conclusions reached by the Combined Chiefs of Staff (Documents 523–524)
  - (5) Communiqué (Document 525)
  - (6) Reports on the conference to Stalin and Chiang (Documents 526–527)
  - (7) Directive to Eisenhower transmitting surrender terms for Italy (Document 528)
  - (8) Statements on relations with the French Committee of National Liberation (Documents 529–531)
10. Arrangements for Conversations at Washington and Developments in the Italian Situation (Documents 532–560)
11. Proceedings of the Conversations at Washington: (Documents 561–581)
- Editorial note
- Wednesday, September 1, 1943 (Document 561)
  - Roosevelt-Churchill conversation, 11:30 p.m. (Document 561)
- Thursday, September 2, 1943 (Documents 562–565)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill meeting, 11:25 a.m. (Document 562)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill meeting, noon (Document 563)
  - Leahy–Cadogan meeting (Document 564)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill conversation, 11:30 p.m. (Document 565)
- Friday, September 3, 1943 (Documents 566–569)
  - Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 2:30 p.m. (Documents 566–567)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill meeting, 4:40 p.m. (Document 568)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill meeting, 5:50 p.m. (Document 569)
- Tuesday, September 7, 1943 (Document 570)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill meeting, 10:50 a.m. (Document 570)
- Wednesday, September 8, 1943 (Document 571)
  - Roosevelt–Churchill meeting, 10:55 a.m. (Document 571)
- Roosevelt–Churchill luncheon meeting, 1 p.m. (Document 572)
- Roosevelt–Churchill meeting, early afternoon (Document 573)
- Thursday, September 9, 1943 (Documents 574–576)
  - Marshall–Churchill meeting, 12:30 p.m. (Document 574)
  - Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff with Roosevelt and Churchill, 5 p.m., The White House (Document 575)
  - Harriman–Churchill conversation, 11 p.m. (Document 576)
- Friday, September 10, 1943 (Documents 577–579)
  - Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 11 a.m. (Documents 577–578)
  - Meeting of Churchill with an ad hoc committee, noon (Document 579)
- Saturday, September 11, 1943 (Documents 580–581)
  - Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff with Churchill, 11 a.m. (Document 580)
  - Hull–Churchill dinner meeting, 8 p.m. (Document 581)
12. Washington Documents and Supplementary Papers: (Documents 582–646)
- A. The war in Asia and the Pacific (Documents 582–587)
- B. The war in Europe (Documents 588–596)
- C. The surrender of Italy and the Allied invasion of the Italian peninsula (Documents 597–621)
- D. Review of the strategic situation in light of the Italian surrender (Documents 622–624)
- E. Bases in the Azores (Document 625)
- F. Anti-submarine warfare (Documents 626–630)
- G. Tripartite meeting with the Soviet Union and establishment of a military-political commission (Documents 631–634)
- H. Cooperation with the United Kingdom in research on atomic energy (Document 635)
- I. Propaganda coordination (Documents 636–640)
- J. Hospital ships (Document 641)
- K. Postwar civil aviation policy (Document 642)
- L. Need for a conference on postwar employment policies (Document 643)
- M. Dependent peoples (Document 644)
- N. Publication of minutes of meetings of the Council of Four during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (Documents 645–646)
13. Conversations at Hyde Park (Documents 647–650)