740.0011 EW 1939/29606½

The Presidents Special Representative ( Davies ) to the President and the Secretary of State 1

u. s. urgent

539. Personal and secret for the President and the Secretary only.

Premier Stalin at the Kremlin handed me reply to the President’s letter to be delivered personally to the President only. It confirms my telegram No. 498 dated May 24 [21]. There is complete agreement in principle. Some supplementary matters he gave to me to be orally transmitted to the President.2 Any further communications on these matters he would arrange to be transmitted to the President exclusively and not through any other channels. I shall return immediately [Page 6] by most direct route via Nome. General Burns is returning same time and same route. Expect to be able to report personally to the President in Washington not later than seventh or eighth June. …

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Davies
  1. Sent by the Ambassador, Moscow, in the Embassy’s numerical series.
  2. The “supplementary matters” concerned the place of the meeting and the inclusion of Churchill. See post, p. 7, footnote 3; the first paragraph of Roosevelt’s message to Churchill of June 28, 1943, post, p. 11; and the final paragraph of Stalin’s message to Roosevelt of August 8, 1943, post, p. 18.