Chiang-Hurley conversation, forenoon
Madame Chiang asked whether Roosevelt and Churchill were to meet with Stalin, to which Hurley replied that such a meeting was scheduled but not for Cairo. There was discussion of the pending plan for American-British-Chinese military cooperation in Burma.
The President to the President’s personal representative
Cairo, 23 November 1943
My Dear General Hurley: You are directed to proceed to Tehran in Iran for the accomplishment of a mission on the conditions outlined in the Secretary of State’s message to you dated at Washington, November 5, 1943, as modified by the Secretary of State’s message to you dated at Washington November 19, 1943.
As my personal representative you are also directed to perform additional duties, the nature and the object of which I have outlined to you personally.