Roosevelt Papers: Telegram
Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt1
Prime Minister to President Personal and Top Secret No. 732.
When are we going to meet and where? That we must meet soon is certain. It would be better that U.J. came too. I am entirely in your hands. I would brave the reporters at Washington or the mosquitos of Alaska! Surely we ought now to fix a date and then begin negotiating with U.J. His Majesty’s Government would wish to propose “Eureka II” for the last ten days of August. For details see my immediately following telegram. Failing this, Casablanca, Rome or even Teheran present themselves and many other places too. But we two must meet and if possible three. Please let me have your ideas on all this.
- Sent to Washington by the United States Military Attaché, London, via Army channels; forwarded by the White House Map Room to Roosevelt, who was en route from Washington to California, as telegram No. Red 134. Roosevelt had left the capital by train aboard the Presidential Special on July 13, 1944. He arrived at San Diego, California, on July 19; sailed for Hawaii on July 21; arrived at Pearl Harbor on July 26; sailed for Alaska on July 29; arrived at the Aleutian base of Adak on August 3; visited Kodiak and other points in Alaska; arrived at Puget Sound Navy Yard at Bremerton, Washington, on August 12 and delivered a radio address there on that date; boarded the Presidential Special again at Seattle, Washington, during the evening of August 12; and arrived back in Washington, D.C., on August 17.↩