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The Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union (Stalin) to President Roosevelt 51

[Translation]

I have received your message containing information regarding the issuance of passports to Dr. Lange and priest Orlemansky. Although the Soviet transport is considerably overloaded we shall provide Lange and Orlemansky with necessary transport facilities. The Soviet Government is considering the trip of Lange and Orlemansky to the Soviet Union as that of private citizens.

[ Moscow ,] March 28, 1944.
  1. Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y. Notations indicate that this message was received from Ambassador Gromyko at 4:15 p.m., and that a copy was sent to the Department of State on the 29th with the President’s statement, “no reply necessary”.↩