President Roosevelt to the British Prime Minister (Churchill)47
727. The following interchange of messages between Marshal Stalin and myself is quoted for your information.48
[Here follows text of telegram from President Roosevelt to Marshal Stalin, March 24, printed on page 156.]
“Marshal Stalin to President, 27 March.
We extremely value and attach great importance to the forthcoming Conference at San Francisco, called to found the international organization of peace and security for peoples but circumstances have developed in such a way that Mr. V. M. Molotov, really, is not able td participate in the Conference. I and Mr. Molotov regret it extremely but the convening, on request of the deputies of the Supreme Soviet, in April, of a session of the Supreme. Soviet of the USSR where the presence of Mr. Molotov is absolutely necessary, is excluding the possibility of his participation even in the first Meetings of the Conference.
You also know that Ambassador Gromyko has quite successfully accomplished his task in Dumbarton Oaks and we are confident that he will with great success head the Soviet delegation in San Francisco.
As regards various interpretations, you understand, this cannot determine the decisions which are to be made”