Franklin Roosevelt, the Churchills, and the Mormons

Last updated on: November 20, 2016 at 2:46 pm by Dan Peterson

The Big Three at Yalta — Sir Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference in February 1945. Roosevelt was already ill, and died in April.
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I’ve run across a reference to an interesting letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

Evidently, an article had been published that linked Mrs. Churchill (and perhaps Mr. Churchill himself) to a Mormon family line. President Roosevelt read the article and sent a letter about it to the Prime Minister:

“Hitherto,” wrote Mr. Roosevelt, “I had not observed any outstanding Mormon characteristics in either of you — but I shall be looking for them from now on. I have a very high opinion of the Mormons — for they are excellent citizens.”

Does anybody know anything more about this letter? Its date, for example?