Office of the Historian

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt 1

top secret
London, 29 December 1944.

Prime Minister to President Roosevelt. Personal and Top Secret. Number 861.

Your 676.2 I send you in my immediately following the Admiralty report on Yalta.3 If this place is chosen, it would be well to have a few destroyers on which we can live if necessary. There would be no difficulty in flying from the great air base and weather center at Caserta. I, myself, landed in a York at Simferopol. I dare say, however, Stalin will make good arrangements ashore. Our party will be kept to the smallest dimensions. I think we should aim at the end of January. I shall have to bring Anthony4 and Leathers.

Prime
  1. Sent by the United States Military Attaché, London, via Army channels.↩
  2. Ante, p. 21.↩
  3. Sent as No. 862; not printed.↩
  4. Eden.↩