(Untitled), 13 Apr 1945

Item

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/114

Scope and Contents

Telegram from WSC to Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] marked "most immediate" and "top secret" and "personal" explaining that "on further thought" it will not be possible for him to leave and that he has asked Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] to go in his place [to funeral of President Roosevelt]. WSC asks Halifax to explain this to Edward Stettinius [United States Secretary of State] and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Dates

Creation: 13 Apr 1945

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