Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1944, Europe, Volume IV

President Roosevelt to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)⁵⁵

[Washington,] 11 October 1944.

82. Personal for Ambassador Harriman. Receipt is acknowledged of your 092352[z]⁵⁶ and 101117.⁵⁷ In regard to your participation in current conferences between Churchill and Stalin it is, of course, inadvisable for you to attempt to break into the tête-à-têtes. My desire is that you attend those conferences to which you are invited, where you should be in the position of a listener in preparation for giving me an accurate report and estimate of the results of the conference when you come to Washington.

Your status in this Churchill–Stalin conference seems to be clearly expressed in my message 041850,⁵⁸ part of which you delivered to Stalin.

In regard to the location of the next meeting, I prefer to have it some place such as The Hague, but will go to the Mediterranean or elsewhere as necessary such as Cannes or Monaco or even Rome in order that we may have a meeting of Churchill, Stalin and myself.

Roosevelt

55. Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.
56. Dated 9 October, p. 1004.
57. Dated 10 October, p. 1005.
58. See telegram 76, 4 October, Foreign Relations, The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945, p. 6.