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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

[483] Press Release Issued by the White House, June 11, 1942

Washington, June 11, 1942

Reprinted from Department of State Bulletin, June 13, 1942, p. 531.

The text of this press release is in the form composed by Molotov, with one modification. In a memorandum of June 3, 1942, Harry L. Hopkins wrote: “I talked to General Marshall about this [draft] and he felt that the sentence about the second front was too strong and urged that there be no reference to 1942. I called this particularly to the Presidents attention but he, nevertheless, wished to have it included, and the Only amendment made was the one recommended by Mr. Hull, namely, that his name be excluded from those participating in a military conference and a sentence be added, which I drafted as follows: ‘Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, joined in subsequent conversations on non-military matters.’”

For the position taken by British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill toward the sentence about the creation of a second front in Europe in 1942, and the text of his aide-mémoire, handed to Molotov during his return stay in London, in which he made it clear that “we can therefore give no promise in the matter,” see Churchill, The Second World War, vol. iv: The Hinge of Fate (Boston, 1950), pp. 341–342.

[486] The Minister Counselor of Embassy in the Soviet Union (Thurston) to the Secretary of State

Kuibyshev (Moscow), June 19, 1942—5 p.m.
[Received 11:20 p.m.]

741.6111/27: Telegram

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

Moscow, June 19, 1942—10 p.m.
[Received June 20—8:33 a.m.]

740.0011 European War 1939/22331: Telegram

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

Moscow, June 22, 1942—7 p.m.
[Received 9:02 p.m.]

740.0011 European War 1939/22877½: Telegram

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

London, June 23, 1942—midnight.
[Received June 23—9:15 p.m.]

741.6111/29: Telegram

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

Moscow, June 30, 1942—8 p.m.
[Received 11:58 p.m.]

196.7/3092: Telegram

[494] Memorandum of Conversation, by the Secretary of State

[Washington,] July 1, 1942.

740.0011 European War 1939/22637

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

Moscow, July 2, 1942—3 p.m.
[Received July 3—6:04 a.m.]

740.0011 European War 1939/22629: Telegram

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

Moscow, July 2, 1942—11 p.m.
[Received July 3—1:08 a.m.]

740.0011 European War 1939/22645: Telegram

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

Moscow, July 4, 1942—2 p.m.
[Received 8:40 p.m.]

740.0011 European War 1939/22681: Telegram

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

Moscow, July 5, 1942—2 p.m.
[Received 4:05 p.m.]

124.61/239: Telegram

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

London, July 10, 1942—8 p.m.
[Received July 10—6:20 p.m.]

740.0011 European War 1939/22839: Telegram

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

Washington, July 21, 1942—8 p.m.

811.7461/15a: Telegram

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

Kuibyshev (Moscow), July 22, 1942—7 p.m.
[Received July 23—6:15 p.m.]

740.0011 European War 1939/23048: Telegram

[508] President Roosevelt to Mr. Wendell L. Willkie

Washington, August 2, 1942.

Copy obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N. Y. This night letter telegram was sent to Mr. Willkie at 15 Broad Street, New York, N. Y.

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

Washington, August 4, 1942—4 p.m.

196.6/1419: Telegram

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

Moscow, August 6, 1942—10 p.m.
[Received August 6—9:44 p.m.]

740.0011 Pacific War/2699: Telegram