The British Prime Minister (Churchill) to President Roosevelt 6
944. Your 739. 1. Stalin sent me a copy of his reply to your message on Poland.7 He also sent me an additional private message, of which the last sentence in Para 1, if seriously intended, would be important. I send this message in my immediately following.8 Please let these personal introductions to his official messages be guarded absolutely as between you and me.
2. I have to make a statement in the House of Commons next Thursday9 and of course I shall like to know your views about how we should answer Stalin as soon as possible. I have a feeling that they do not want to quarrel with us, and your telegram10 about Crossword may have seriously and deservedly perturbed them. Our angle of approach and momentum remain exactly what they have been in both the matters under dispute as set forth in our telegrams.