The British Deputy Prime Minister to the Commander-in-Chief, AFHQ
London, August 19, 1943.
Most secret
Priority
For General Eisenhower’s eyes only from the Deputy Prime Minister.
To avoid inference which might be drawn from paragraph 3 of armistice terms, now in the hands of your staff officers travelling Lisbon, that we are “negotiating” with Badoglio Government, President and Prime Minister have agreed that after words “Commander-in-Chief” paragraph 3 should be amended to read “and none of these may now or at any time be evacuated to Germany.”
His Majesty’s Ambassador, Lisbon, has been informed.