Office of the Historian

Hopkins Papers: Telegram

The President’s Special Assistant (Hopkins) to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)1

[Washington,] October 26, 1943.

Personal and secret from Harry Hopkins to W. Averell Harriman.

If meeting in Bosra [Basra] agreed to President confident that between ourselves and the British we can make proper arrangements with Iran and Iraq relative to Russian troops.

Reports of the Conference are very encouraging although, naturally, everyone here disappointed that personal conference seems difficult.

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