The President’s Chief of Staff to the President
Cairo, 5 December 1943
Memorandum for the President
Subject: RECOGNITION OF ROME AS AN OPEN CITY
The question of declaring Rome an open city has again been discussed by the Joint U.S. Chiefs of Staff with the British Chiefs of Staff. The British Chiefs of Staff are still of the opinion that, from a military point of view, such action is undesirable.
WILLIAM D. LEAHY
Admiral, U.S. Navy Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy