Office of the Historian

Moscow Embassy Files: Lot F–96, Box 2

President Roosevelt to the Chairman of the Council of Peopled Commissars of the Soviet Union (Stalin)34

April 4, 1944

Many thanks for your message of March 25.35 It is my hope that the International Labor Organization at the coming meeting will [Page 857] make it clear that it no longer is an organ of the League of Nations and that it will affiliate itself with the United Nations. I trust, therefore, that the Soviet Union will have representatives at the next conference.

I will keep you informed of what takes place at the meeting in Philadelphia.

  1. Paraphrase received through Naval channels at the Embassy in Moscow on April 3, 1944, and sent on for Stalin in a letter to Molotov on the next day.↩
  2. For text, see Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the U.S.S.R.: Correspondence Between the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R. and the Presidents of the U.S.A. and the Prime Ministers of Great Britain During the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, vol. ii, p. 136.↩