Office of the Historian

Hopkins Papers

The President’s Special Assistant (Hopkins) to the President
Washington, January 6, 1942.

Memorandum for the President:

The attached is a telegram which Churchill proposes to send to the Dutch apropos of their complaints about the agreement.1

I gave it to Stark and he consulted Marshall, King and Arnold and they find the telegram is all right.

Immediately following the draft telegram is a memorandum of explanation which Stark drafted.2 I don’t quite understand it but the main thing is that your staff recommend that the cable go as dictated.

If it has your approval I will give it to the British and they will get it off tonight.3

Harry L. Hopkins
  1. The attached telegram was a copy of Churchill’s draft telegram of January 5, 1942, ante, p. 305.↩
  2. The attachment was a copy of Stark’s letter to Hopkins, supra. ↩
  3. The memorandum was returned with the handwritten notation: “H.L.H.—OK FDR”.↩