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Winston Churchill - FBI Files & President Roosevelt Correspondences

FBI FILES

220 pages of files copied from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., covering Winston Churchill. Files contain approximately 75 readable pages, chiefly covering 1940s and 1950s FBI investigations into several threats against the then former Prime Minister of Great Britain. Files also contain miscellaneous references to Prime Minister Churchill.


FDR - CHURCHILL CORRESPONDENCES

5,887 pages of correspondences between FDR and Winston Churchill. The messages date from September 1939 to April 1945. Documents of correspondence between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill from the outbreak of World War II in Europe through the United States' entry and involvement in the war, correspondences end with Roosevelt's death in April 1945. Messages include White House note cards on the handling, dissimilation, and responses to Churchill’s messages.

The first message is dated September 11, 1939, when Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty. Britain declared war against Germany on September 3, 1939. That day Churchill was named First Lord of the Admiralty, the position he held during the beginning of World War I. FDR lets Churchill know that he would be happy to hear anything he would want to tell him and that their communications could be private. In his last message to Churchill dated April 11, 1945, FDR gives his approval of a Churchill proposed message to the German government that they should provide relief from starvation to people in German occupied areas of Holland. The next day Franklin Roosevelt died.

Churchill often addressed Roosevelt as "Former Naval Person." FDR previously was Assistant Secretary of the Navy during World War I. Churchill in his first message to FDR in this collection, referring to

himself as "Naval Person," tells of naval activity against Germany during the first days of war between Britain and Germany. In his last message to FDR, Churchill comments on his thoughts about the Provisional Polish Government. White House documentation does not indicate if FDR, who died the next day, ever read the message.