lin Delano Roosevelt February 9th, 1945Dear Diary, The conference is coming to a close. We have but two more sessions to straighten out what we can and make as many decisions that need to be made as possible. Stalin, Churchill, and I have agreed that we are falling behind in schedule and should leave many of the less urgent subjects that we have been planning to discuss to the conference on April 25th. I am beginning to feel tired again, and I can feel my sinuses worsening. I wish the conference would just finish now. It has already been much more productive than I ever imagined it could be. At the session today, which I opened, naturally, we decided on the city in which the next conference will take place: San Francisco. I don't quite recall whether it was Churchill or I who suggested it, but it is suitable to all of our needs and it just occurred to us to have the conference there. It is large, sociable city, decent weather, and enough accommodations. What more is there to want? This decision, though simple by comparison to all of the other ones we've made so far, took a fair amount of time, one-and-a-half to two hours I believe, and we did not have very much time left afterward. The remainder of the conference was spent revising the "Declaration on Liberated Europe," which will be released to the public after the conference is through. I have my suggested draft with me at the moment, and I think I shall copy it onto this entry. This will be something, hopefully, that I will be able to look back on and smile after the war has come to an end. Declaration on Liberated Europe:"The Premier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and the President of the United States of America have consulted with each other in the common interests of the peoples of their countries and those of liberated Europe. They jointly declare their mutual agreement to concert during the temporary ...
