Office of the Historian

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt 1

top secret
London, January 24, 1945.

Prime Minister to President Roosevelt Personal and Top Secret number 894.

It would be a great pity if Eisenhower and Alexander only come to Cricket and if we do not have them with us at Magneto.2 This will really make it impossible for the Heads of Government to enter fully into the military problems. I hope therefore they may be instructed as originally proposed to come to Magneto as well as Cricket and if they have to be absent from either, it should be Cricket.

The above of course is subject to battle exigencies.

  1. Sent by the United States Military Attaché, London, via Army channels.↩
  2. Alexander was present at both Malta and Yalta, but Eisenhower was not. The latter’s chief of staff, Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith, was, however, in attendance at Malta.↩