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Churchill to Roosevelt: Shipping for Australian Wheat to India

Author: Winston Churchill

Date: 29/4/1944

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Description: A telegram from British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt requesting additional shipping capacity to send wheat from Australia to combat the Bengal Famine

Source: Winston Churchill, Request for ships to transfer Australian wheat to India, April 29, 1944; Churchill to FDR - April-May 1944, Message Files, Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942–1945; Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, NY. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/27579653?objectPage=154

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/27579653?objectPage=154

Source ID: 55