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Message Files

1942-1945

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/578278

This series consists of messages sent or received by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and by his immediate family and advisors, and they record the actions taken personally by President Roosevelt and his staff on the major diplomatic and military questions of World War II. Included in this series are exchanges of correspondence with world leaders, including British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, Nationalist China leader Chiang Kai-Shek, Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, and others. Additional messages contained in this series include exchanges with diplomatic personnel, Cabinet officials, White House staff, and American military officials. This series also includes files of messages and materials related to the various trips taken by the President during the war. Included are files on the wartime conferences at Casablanca, Quebec, Cairo and Tehran, and Yalta. Additional files relate to the President's trips to Hyde Park, New York, Warm Springs, Georgia, Shangri-La (now known as Camp David), Bernard Baruch's estate in South Carolina known as Hobcaw, the Pacific Inspection trip to Hawaii and Alaska, and other presidential trips. This series also includes Special Subject Files on military and diplomatic topics in which the President was vitally interested and about which he sent and received a great many messages, such as submarine warfare, civil affairs in Italy and France, Operation OVERLORD, Polish-Russian relations, the bombing of Rome, air operations against Japan, and other topics.

15 linear feet, 4 linear inches

eng, Latn

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum

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Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum

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