Office of the Historian

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the President1

secret
urgent
Moscow, 29 October 1943.

For the President from Hull.

Your Oct 28th2 just received. I have been kept here longer than I had expected and will not be able to leave before the 31st. Under most favorable conditions I would not reach Washington prior to the 11th or 12th.

I shall be glad to meet you on this side of the Atlantic at any time or place that will suit your convenience.

I have increasing indications that the Marshal will not go beyond Teheran. I doubt seriously whether Molotov not being a military [Page 53] man would be sent as substitute. Without his knowledge of my purpose I sounded him out indirectly.

I will continue to press the Stalin matter and Harriman will after I leave.

Wire me at Teheran and Cairo as to where you desire me to meet you.

  1. Sent to Washington by the United States Naval Attach, Moscow, via Navy channels, and forwarded by the White House Map Room to Roosevelt, who was at Hyde Park October 30–November 3, 1943.↩
  2. Ante, p. 49.↩