Office of the Historian

845.00/1929: Telegram

Mr. William Phillips, Personal Representative of President Roosevelt in India, to the Secretary of State

New Delhi, April 25, 1943—3 p.m.
[Received April 25—8:21 a.m.]

307. During the last 2 days I have been visiting the Viceroy at a shooting camp and have discussed all angles of the Indian situation.

With his consent I am saying this afternoon at a press conference of the Indian and American correspondents that naturally I should like to have met and talked with Mr. Gandhi; that I have requested the appropriate authorities for permission to do so and have been informed that they were unable to grant the necessary facilities.

Phillips