President Roosevelt to the British Prime Minister ( Churchill )46
Washington
, July 15,
1942.
166. After consultation with King47 I must reluctantly agree to the position which the Admiralty has taken regarding the Russian convoy to the North48 and I think your message to Stalin49 is a good one. I assume you will send it at once.50
In the meantime we must omit nothing that will increase the traffic through Persia.
A suggestion has been made that American railway men take over the operation of the railroad. Have you any opinion about this? They are first class at this sort of thing.
Roosevelt
- Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.↩
- Adm. Ernest J. King, Chief of Naval Operations.↩
- See telegram No. 3908, July 15, 2 p.m., from the Ambassador in the United Kingdom, vol. iii, p. 714.↩
- Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin, President of the Council of People’s Commissars (Premier) of the Soviet Union.↩
- For text of letter sent July 17, see Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War: The Hinge of Fate (Boston, 1950), p. 267.↩