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Roosevelt Papers

The President to the Secretary of State

[Cairo?] December 7, 1943.

Memorandum for: The Secretary of State.

After discussing this matter1 with the British military authorities I consider it inadvisable to reopen the matter at this time.

F[ranklin] D. R[oosevelt]
  1. See Hull’s letter of November 21, 1943, to Roosevelt (ante, p. 266), on the question of making Rome an open city. See also ante, p. 801.↩