Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

Marshal Stalin to President Roosevelt¹

[Moscow, October 6, 1943.]

Translation

Personal and secret from Premier J. V. Stalin to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

I received your message of October 4th.²

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Our representatives³ have to do everything possible to prevent possible difficulties in their responsible work. It is understood that the decisions as such can be made only by our governments and I hope they will be made at my personal meeting with you and Mr. Churchill.

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October 6, 1943.

1. Apparently sent via the Soviet Embassy, Washington. The entire document is printed in Stalin’s Correspondence, vol. ii, p. 97.
2. Ante, p. 27.
3. At the forthcoming Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers.