Office of the Historian

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

President Roosevelt to Marshal Stalin 1

secret
Washington, May 5, 1943.

Personal and secret for Mr. Stalin from the President.

I want you to know that Mr. Churchill is coming to Washington next week to discuss our immediate next steps. We will of course keep General Belyaev currently informed.

Roosevelt

  1. Sent to the United States Naval Attaché, Moscow, via Navy channels. In a note of May 7, 1943, to Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov, the Ambassador in the Soviet Union, William D. Standley, transmitted a paraphrased text of the President’s message with the request that it be conveyed to Marshal Stalin. For text of the message as delivered to Stalin and dated May 6, 1943, see Stalin’s Correspondence, vol. ii, No. 84, p. 64.

    President Roosevelt also sent a personal note to Marshal Stalin, dated May 5, 1943, proposing that the two leaders confer together sometime during the summer. The note, which also mentioned that the President and the Prime Minister would be conferring the following week, was delivered to Marshal Stalin on May 21, 1943, by the President’s Special Representative, Joseph E. Davies. For text of note, see Foreign Relations, The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943, p. 3.

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