Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt¹

secret

[Cairo?] 21 November 1943.

Unnumbered (#507)²

Former Naval Person to President Roosevelt most immediate personal and most secret.

See St. John, chapter 14, verses 1 to 4.³

1. Sent to London; forwarded by the American Embassy, London, apparently via military channels and the White House Map Room, to Roosevelt in North Africa, Regarding Churchill’s concern after this message had been sent, lest it give offense, see Churchill, p. 327.
2. The parenthetical information is handwritten on the source text.

3. The source text contains, at the bottom of the page, the verses cited, as follows:

   • “1. Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
   • “2. In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you.
   • “3. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
   • “4. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.”