May 25th, 1943

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

12:00am –

1:55am

Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill, W. Averell Harriman, Harry L. Hopkins, Lt. Gen. Sir Hastings Ismay

White House

STE, USH, FR

2:10am

Retired from previous day

White House

USH

11:00am –

11:20am

Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill

White House

USH

11:20am

(Gen. George C. Marshall)

White House

STE, TU, USH, PAI

11:35am –

1:10pm

Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill, Harry L. Hopkins, Combined (Allied) Chiefs of Staff : Adm. William D. Leahy, Gen. George C. Marshall, Adm. Ernest J. King, Lt. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, Brig. Gen. John R. Deane, Lt. Gen. Sir Hastings Ismay, Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Gen. Sir Alan Brooke, Field Marshal Sir John Dill, Adm. Sir Dudley Pound, Brig. E. C. Jacob

White House

STE, TU, FR, PAI

1:15pm –

2:45pm

(luncheon) Chiefs of Staff, et al: Prime Min. Winston L. Churchill, British Amb. Lord Halifax, Lord Leathers, Lord Cherwell, Adm. Sir Dudley Pound, Field Marshal Sir John Dill, Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell, Gen. Sir Alan Brooke, Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Adm. Sir Percy Noble, Adm. Sir James Somerville, Lt. Gen. G. N. MacCready, Air Marshal Sir Richard Welsh, Lt. Gen. Sir Hastings Ismay, Lord Moran, Maj. Gen. N. G. Holmes, Maj. Gen. S. W. Kirby, Maj. Gen. W. J. Cawthorne, Brig. E. I. C. Jacob, Brig. H. Redman, Brig. W. Porter, Air Commodore W. Elliot, Brig. J. Kirkman, Commodore Edwards, Capt. C. E. Lambe, Sec. of State Cordell Hull, War Sec. Henry L. Stimson, Frank Knox, Adm. William D. Leahy, Gen. George C. Marshall, Adm. Ernest J. King, Lt. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, Lt. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, Vice Adm. R. S. Edwards, Vice Adm. F. J. Horne, Maj. Gen. Edwin M. Watson, Harry L. Hopkins, Associate Justice James F. Byrnes, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Maj. Gen. J. E. Hull, Maj. Gen. St. Claire Streett, Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault, Rear Adm. Wilson Brown, Rear Adm. Charles M. Cooke, Jr., Brig. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, Brig. Gen. John R. Deane, Comdr. Victor D. Long, Lewis W. Douglas, W. Averill Harriman

White House

STE, TU, USH, PAI

2:45pm

To Office

White House

USH

2:45pm

(China Foreign Min. Dr. T. V. Soong)

Office

STE, TU, PAI

3:00pm

Interior Sec. Harold L. Ickes

Office

STE, TU, PAI

4:03pm

Press Conf. PC#899 (FDR, Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill)

Office

PC, STE, TU, FR

7:05pm

Returned from Office via Doctor's office

Office

USH

7:50pm

(dinner) - Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill, Harry L. Hopkins

Note: Editorial note in "Foreign Relations of the United States" discusses the possibility that U.S. and U.K. cooperation on atomic energy was discussed at this meeting.

Subject: Message to Stalin re Conference

White House

USH, FR

ER

In Washington, DC

USH

Houseguest

Mrs. Lewis Thompson (arr. 6:30)

USH

USH = White House Usher's Diary, STE = Stenographer's Diary, PC = Press Conference, TU = Tully's Appointment Diary

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