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Roosevelt Papers

Marshal Stalin to President Roosevelt 1

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

I share your thought about the desirability of a meeting between you, Mr. Churchill and myself.

However, I must say, that now, when the Soviet Armies are involved in battles on such a wide front, it would be impossible for me to leave the country and depart for a certain period of time from the conducting of front matters. All my colleagues consider it absolutely impossible.

July 22, 1944.
  1. Apparently transmitted by the Soviet Embassy, Washington.↩