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

811.001 Roosevelt, F. D./9453½: Telegram

The Ambassador in Turkey (Steinhardt) to the President, the Secretary of State, and the Under Secretary of State (Stettinius)¹

Ankara, November 14, 1943—5 p.m.

1869. Most secret for the President, the Secretary and the Under Secretary.

In expressing his keen pleasure with President Roosevelt’s letter of October 26 to President Inönü,² the Minister for Foreign Affairs³ remarked to me last night that Inönü would be delighted to meet our President and that if President Roosevelt could not be persuaded to visit Turkey, he would be more than pleased to go to meet him should he visit any other part of the Near East.

Steinhardt

1. On November 17, 1943, the White House Map Room telegraphed a paraphrase of this message to Greer, “to be held for delivery to the President upon arrival at Oran.”
2. Ante, p. 43.
3. Numan Menemencioğlu.