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 17, 1943.]

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

I have received both of your messages of October 14.² I thank you for the information about the Secretary of State and his staff, who are on their way now. I hope they will soon arrive safely in Moscow.

I shall send my reply regarding the question raised in your second message, after I have counsel with my colleagues in the Government.

October 17, 1943.

1. Apparently sent via the Soviet Embassy, Washington.
2. Ante, pp. 30, 31.