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The Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union (Stalin) to President Roosevelt 96

[Translation]97

I have received your message on the Pacific Ocean matters.

I understand the significance you attach to these matters.

We also attach great importance to your successes there. I am confident at the same time that you are well aware to what an extent our forces are just now strained in order to ensure the success of the struggle going on at the present time in Europe. All this allows to hope that the time is not far off when we shall attain a solution of our urgent task and will be able to take up other questions. I hope that General Deane will already now successfully cooperate with our staff.98

August 22, 1944.
  1. Copy obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.↩
  2. Translation revised by the editors.↩
  3. In an attached memorandum the President noted: “I think this does not need an answer. F.D.R.”↩