Office of the Historian

Moscow Embassy Files, Lot F–96

President Roosevelt to the Chairman of the Soviet Council of People’s Commissars (Stalin)20

[Extract]21
Washington, September 10, 1943.

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Regarding the meeting of our three representatives, I will cheerfully agree that the place of meeting be Moscow and the date the beginning of October—say Monday, the fourth. I will send you in two or three days a suggested informal list of subjects to be discussed, but I think the three members should feel free, after becoming acquainted with each other, to discuss any other matters which may come up.

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Roosevelt
  1. Transmitted in a letter from Ambassador Standley to Foreign Commissar Molotov on September 11. The latter acknowledged receipt of the letter in a note dated the same day, and stated that “the message in question has been transmitted by me to its destination”.↩
  2. Other portions of this message (which concluded with the statement: “I really feel that the three of us are making real headway.”) are printed on p. 785 and in Foreign Relations, The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943, p. 24.↩