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

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

President Roosevelt to Marshal Stalin¹

secret
priority

[Washington,] 23 February 1944.

Personal and secret from the President for Marshal Stalin.

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It is clear to me that there is a manifest need for United Nations machinery for joint planning of the procedures by which consideration should be given to the various fields of international economic cooperation, the subjects which should be discussed, the order of discussion, and the means of coordinating existing and prospective arrangements and activities. … What I am raising here is the question of further steps toward the establishment of United Nations machinery for post-war economic collaboration, which was raised by the Secretary of State at the Moscow meeting² and was discussed by you, Prime Minister Churchill, and myself at Teheran.³

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Roosevelt

1. Sent to the United States Naval Attaché Moscow, via Navy channels.
2. See ante, p. 118.
3. See ante, pp. 530–531.