Office of the Historian

The British Prime Minister (Churchill) and the Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union (Stalin) to President Roosevelt 51

[Moscow,] 10 October 1944.

794. In an informal discussion we have taken a preliminary view of the situation as it affects us and have planned out the course of our agreement, social and otherwise. We have invited Messrs. Mikolajczyk [Page 1008] Romer52 and Grabski53 to come at once for further conversations with us and with the Polish National Committee. We have agreed not to refer in our discussions to Dumbarton Oaks issues and that these shall be taken up when we three can meet together. We have to consider the best way of reaching an agreed policy about the Balkan countries including Hungary and Turkey. We have arranged for Mr. Harriman to sit in as an observer at all meetings where business of importance is to be transacted and for General Deane to be present whenever military topics are raised. We have arranged for technical contacts between our high officers and General Deane on military aspects, and for any meetings which may be necessary later in our presence and that of the two Foreign Secretaries together with Mr. Harriman. We shall keep you fully informed ourselves about the progress we make.

We take this occasion to send you our heartiest good wishes and to offer our congratulations on prowess of United States Forces and upon the conduct of the war in the west by General Eisenhower.54

  • Churchill
  • Stalin
  1. Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N. Y.↩
  2. Tadeusz Romer, Polish Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Mikolajczyk Cabinet.↩
  3. Stanislaw Grabski, Chairman of the National Council of the Republic of Poland in London.↩
  4. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Commanding General of Allied Forces in the European Theater of Operations since December 31, 1943.↩