Office of the Historian

Discussions relating to policies and problems, and missions concerned with the prosecution of the war, between the United States and the Soviet Union, at times with British participation

British-Soviet Negotiations far a Treaty of Alliance; Problem of Agreement to the Extent of the Western Frontiers of the Soviet Union; General Greely Military Mission to the Soviet Union; Visit of Molotov to London and Washington; Problem of a Second Front in Western Europe; Internment of an American Bomber Crew in the Soviet Union; Treatment of Merchant Seamen in the Northern Ports of the Soviet Union; Mission of General Bradley: Alaska-Siberia Airplane Ferry; Prime Minister Churchill’s Conversations in Moscow with Stalin; Visit of Wendell L. Willkie in the Soviet Union; Mission of General Adler: Proposed Bomber Aid in the Caucasus; Early Inquiries to Arrange a Meeting of the Three Leaders; Visits of General Hurley to Battle Fronts

[423] The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Thurston) to the Secretary of State

Kuibyshev (Moscow), January 5, 1942—4 p.m.
[Received January 6—1:08 a.m.]

740.0011 European War 1939/18191: Telegram

[424] The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State

London, January 10, 1942—midnight.
[Received January 10—10:10 p.m.]

740.0011 European War 1939/18363: Telegram

[425] The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)

Washington, January 12, 1942—6 p.m.

740.0011 European War 1939/18363: Telegram

[426] The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State

London, January 13, 1942—7 p.m.
[Received January 13—3:45 p.m.]

740.0011 European War 1939/18466: Telegram

[427] The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State

London, January 19, 1942—7 p.m.
[Received January 20—10:35 a.m.]

740.0011 European War 1939/18674: Telegram

[429] The Secretary of State to President Roosevelt

Washington, February 4, 1942.

740.0011 European War 1939/17085a

[432] Aide-Mémoire by the British Foreign Office

[ London ,] 25 February, 1942.

Copy obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N. Y. There is no information available to indicate when this aide-mémoire was received at the Department of State or by President Roosevelt.

[433] The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in the Soviet Union (Thurston)

Washington, March 2, 1942—9 p.m.

861.20/533a: Telegram

[434] The Chargé in the United Kingdom (Matthews) to the Secretary of State

London, March 5, 1942—11 p.m.
[Received March 5—9:17 p.m.]

740.0011 European War 1939/20035: Telegram

[435] The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Thurston) to the Secretary of State

Kuibyshev (Moscow), March 7, 1942—1 p.m.
[Received 11:58 p.m.]

740.0011 European War 1939/20011: Telegram

[436] The Chargé in the United Kingdom (Matthews) to the Secretary of State

London, March 7, 1942—midnight.
[Received March 7—9:55 p.m.]

740.0011 European War 1939/20005: Telegram

[437] The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Thurston) to the Secretary of State

Kuibyshev (Moscow), March 9, 1942—4 p.m.
[Received March 10—8:15 a.m.]

861.20/536: Telegram

[438] The Chargé in the United Kingdom (Matthews) to the Secretary of State

London, March 9, 1942—7 p.m.
[Received March 9—5:45 p.m.]

740.0011 European War 1939/20045: Telegram

[440] The Chargé in the United Kingdom (Matthews) to the Secretary of State

London, March 13, 1942—9 p.m.
[Received March 13—6:35 p.m.]

740.0011 European War 1939/20297: Telegram

[441] The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Thurston) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, March 21, 1942—noon.
[Received 12:18 p.m.]

861.20/539: Telegram

[442] The First Secretary of Embassy in the Soviet Union (Dickerson) to the Secretary of State

Kuibyshev (Moscow), March 24, 1942—3 p.m.
[Received 8:32 p.m.]

861.20/541: Telegram

[443] The Second Secretary of Embassy in the Soviet Union (Thompson) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, March 26, 1942—4 p.m.
[Received 5:10 p.m.]

861.014/242: Telegram

[444] Memorandum of Conversation, by the Acting Secretary of State

[Washington,] March 30, 1942.

741.6111/55/7

[448] President Roosevelt to the President of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union (Stalin)

April 11, 1942, noon

Copy obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N. Y. The message was given to the Counselor of the Soviet Embassy, Andrey Andreyevich Gromyko, on April 11, 1942, noon. In telegram No. 97, April 14, 1942 the Department sent a summary of this message to Ambassador Standley, ii accordance with an understanding made with him before his departure for the Soviet Union; the telegram concluded: “The summary of this message is sent to you, of course, solely for your secret information and not for discussion unless the subject is raised with you.” (740.0011 European War 1939/21011a)

[449] The Chargé in the United Kingdom (Matthews) to the Secretary of State

London, April 16, 1942—11 p.m.
[Received April 16—8:36 p.m.]

740.00119 European War 1939/959: Telegram

[450] The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Standley) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, April 18, 1942—3 p.m.
[Received April 19—7:23 a.m.]

861.20/545: Telegram

[452] The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Standley) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, April 24, 1942—2 p.m.
[Received April 25—12:05 p.m.]

740.0011 European War 1939/21211½: Telegram