Moscow Embassy Files: Lot F–96

The American Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Standley) to the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (Molotov)

No. L–6

I have the honor to inform you that I have been instructed to transmit the following message dated July 9, 1942 from the President to Mr. Stalin:

“I am deeply appreciative of your telegram96 authorizing the transfer of forty bombers to Egypt. I have arranged for one hundred and fifteen medium tanks with ammunition and spare parts to be shipped [Page 610] to you at once in addition to all tanks being shipped in accordance with the terms of the July protocol.”

Accept [etc.]

For the Ambassador:
Llewellyn E. Thompson, Jr.

Secretary of Embassy
  1. See footnote 92, p. 607.