Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

President Roosevelt to Generalissimo Chiang¹

[Aboard the U. S. S. “Iowa”, November 12, 1943.]

Personal and secret for the Generalissimo from the President

I am just off for French North Africa and our meeting place where I am scheduled to arrive by the twenty-second. I expect to stay there until the twenty-sixth when I will go to see our friend from the north and then return to our conference place in three or four days.

I do hope you can come by the twenty-second and that Madame Chiang is much better. Please give her my warm regards.²

Roosevelt

1. The source text bears the following handwritten notation: “11–12–43 Despatched from USS Iowa by officer courier (Lt. Bogue) to Colonel Mathewson in Map Room for transmission.” (See also post, p. 276.) The message was then sent as a telegram to the American Military Mission to China, Chungking, via military channels.
2. The Chiangs arrived in Cairo on the evening of November 21; see the Log, post, p. 293. According to Hollington K. Tong, Chiang Kai-shek, p. 307, Chiang was accompanied by a party of sixteen.