Roosevelt Papers: Telegram
Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt1
Further examination shows that Malta would be most inconvenient administratively and conditions would harm work of conference.2 We are not therefore proceeding with Malta preparation. All authorities here strongly recommend adhering to Pyramid area and that air raid danger is slight. If desired principals could sleep in Cairo at any rate part of the time. Everything is prepared and all precautions are taken in present position and I hope that you will decide to come there. Unless I hear from you to the contrary during the day of 20th I shall proceed to Cairo.
- Sent via British and American Navy channels, by way of Washington, and also via the headquarters of the Commander in Chief, Mediterranean, at Algiers, to Roosevelt aboard the U. S. S. Iowa.↩
- For the difficulties at Malta, see Leasor, The Clock With Four Hands, pp. 255–257; and Hollis, One Marine’s Tale, pp. 102–103.↩