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The President of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union (Stalin) to President Roosevelt 60
February 19, 1942.
I have received your message informing me of consignments of armaments from the United States for January and February.
I would like to emphasise the fact that at the present moment, when the peoples of the Soviet Union and its army are exerting all their powers to thrust back, by their determined offensive, Hitler’s troops, the fulfilment of American deliveries, including tanks and aeroplanes, is of the utmost importance for our common cause, for our further successes.
- Left with the Acting Secretary of State by the Soviet Ambassador, Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, on February 21.↩