Office of the Historian

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

The President to the Director of War Mobilization (Byrnes)1

[Tehran,] 28 November 1943.

The increase in critical types of Landing Craft proposed in your message (White 37) of 25 November,2 coupled with unstated effect on other critical programs, does not become effective soon enough to justify change in present construction programs.3

  1. Sent to Washington via military channels, and forwarded by the White House Map Room to Byrnes.↩
  2. Telegram of November 24, 1943, ante, p. 395.↩
  3. Despite the negative tenor of this message, Byrnes’ exchange of telegrams with Roosevelt resulted in the adoption in Washington of the program described by Byrnes in his telegram of November 24, 1943. See George E. Mowry, Landing Craft and the War Production Board (Special Study No. 11 in the series Historical Reports on War Administration: War Production Board; published at Washington by the Civilian Production Administration, 1946), p. 31; Civilian Producton Administration, Industrial Mobilization for War: History of the War Production Board and Predecessor Agencies, 1940–1945 (General Study No. 1 in the series Historical Reports on War Administration: War Production Board; published at Washington by the Government Printing Office, 1947), vol. i, p. 608; James F. Byrnes, Speaking Frankly (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1947), p. 20.↩