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Roosevelt Papers

Marshal Stalin to President Roosevelt1

Translation

Personal and Secret Message to President Roosevelt From Premier Stalin

I thank you for Your letter which Your Ambassador has extended to me on December 18th.2

I am glad that fate has given me an opportunity to render you a service in Teheran. I also attach important significance to our meeting and to the conversations taken place there which concerned such substantial questions of accelerating of our common victory and establishment of future lasting peace between the peoples.3

December 20, 1943.
  1. Sent via the Soviet Embassy, Washington.↩
  2. The letter from Roosevelt dated December 3, 1943, ante, p. 785.↩
  3. For a further reference, in the post-Conference Roosevelt–Stalin correspondence, to the cooperative spirit which prevailed at Tehran, see Stalin’s Correspondence, vol. ii, p. 119.↩