Office of the Historian

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt 1

[On Board the “Queen Mary”, undated.]

Admiralty have now routed us a somewhat longer course and we shall probably be several hours late. I should like to go by train to Washington and will arrive there during the afternoon. I shall be delighted to come to Hyde Park for the week-end, and I dare say we may have better news from North Africa than we did at the time of Tobruk in June.2 Look forward to seeing you.3

  1. Channel of transmission not indicated. The receipt date of May 10 is recorded in a handwritten marginal notation.↩
  2. The reference here is to the fall of Tobruk in June, 1942, at the time of the Second Washington Conference; see the editorial note, Foreign Relations, The Conferences at Washington, 1941–1942, and Casablanca, 1943, p. 433.↩
  3. Churchill’s party, which had landed at Staten Island, arrived in Washington by train late on the afternoon of May 11, 1943.↩