Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1943, Europe, Volume II

President Roosevelt to the British Prime Minister (Churchill)²¹

[Washington,] 1 October, 1943.

367. Your 427 and 427.²² Italy has not yet made a declaration of war against Germany.

I suggest that you endeavor to obtain from Stalin approval of your text of proposed joint statement by all three of us to be made public immediately following a declaration of war against Germany by Italy.

Your text meets with my approval.

Roosevelt

21. Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.
22. Dated September 30, p. 380.