Embassy Files: Lot F–96, Box 2
The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Hamilton) to the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (Molotov)
Dear Mr. Molotov: I refer to my secret letter of May 24, 1944, transmitting a secret and personal message of May 23 from President Roosevelt to Marshal Stalin.26
I have today received the following very secret and personal message dated May 27 from President Roosevelt to Marshal Stalin:
“Secret and personal from President Roosevelt to Marshal Stalin.
With reference to my message of May 23 proposing for consideration a message to be issued by me with the purpose of influencing the German people, I am informed that the suggestion is not approved by the Prime Minister of Great Britain and his Cabinet.
Because the proposed statement is not of essential importance and in view of a definite and positive objection by the British Government, I propose to do nothing in the way of a statement of that nature at the present time.”
I would appreciate it if you would be so good as to transmit the above message to Marshal Stalin.
Sincerely yours,