Memorandum by the Minister in Egypt
Cairo, November 26, 1943
Secret
Memorandum
On this afternoon Mr. Harry Hopkins handed me a copy of the communiqué to be issued in regard to the Anglo-American-Chinese talks in Cairo and asked me to hold it pending the receipt of instructions from Tehran as to its release. Mr. Hopkins said that the matter of the release had not been decided upon and that I would be given 24 hours’ notice so that the release by the three interested countries might be simultaneous. Mr. Hopkins added that I should notify the Chinese when I got instructions from Tehran. At the conclusion of the conversation, I said that it seemed that all I was to do was to see that the U.S. correspondents in Cairo got the communiqué through OWI and Mr. Hopkins replied in the affirmative.
AK