Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945

Roosevelt Papers

Marshal Stalin to President Roosevelt ¹

Translation²

Secret and Personal from Premier J. V. Stalin to President F. D. Roosevelt.

I have received your message of October 25.³

If the idea that was expressed earlier about the possibility of our meeting on the Soviet Black Sea coast appears to be acceptable for you I would consider it extremely desirable to realize this plan. The conditions for a meeting there are absolutely favorable. I hope that by that time it will be also possible to provide a safe entrance of your vessel into the Black Sea. Since the doctors do not recommend to undertake any big trips at the present time, I have to give consideration to that.

I shall be glad to see you as soon as you find it possible to undertake the trip.

October 29, 1944.

1. Apparently transmitted by the Soviet Embassy, Washington.
2. Appears on the original.
3. The reference is presumably to No. 100 from Roosevelt, dated October 24, 1944, supra.