Roosevelt Papers: Telegram
Marshal Stalin to President Roosevelt1
Translation
Personal and secret message from Premier J. V. Stalin to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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[Page 24]Third. As to our personal meeting with participation of Mr. Churchill I am also interested to have it arranged as soon as possible. Your proposal regarding the time of the meeting seems to me acceptable. I consider that it would be expedient to choose as the place of the meeting the country where there are the representations of all three countries, for instance, Iran. However, I have to say that the exact date of the meeting has to be defined later taking into consideration the situation on the Soviet-German front where more than 500 divisions are engaged in the righting in all, and where the control on the part of the High Command of the USSR is needed almost daily.
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September 8, 1943.
- Apparently sent via the Soviet Embassy, Washington. The entire document is printed in Stalin’s Correspondence, vol. ii, p. 90.↩