Office of the Historian

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

Marshal Stalin to President Roosevelt1

[Moscow,] 12 November 1943.

As it appeared, Mr. V. M. Molotov, due to some circumstances, which are of a serious character, cannot come to Cairo by November 22nd. He will come together with me to Iran at the end of November. On the above I inform at the same time Mr. Churchill, and on this matter you will receive the information.

P. S. Sending of the present message, unfortunately, has [been] delayed, because of the fault of some office clerks, but, I hope, it will arrive, nevertheless, in time.2

  1. Channel of transmission to Washington not indicated. On November 14, 1943, the White House Map Room relayed the message to the U. S. S. Iowa, for the President, via Naval Radio. The file copy of the message as received on board the U. S. S. Iowa contains the following handwritten notation: “Pres wants to answer soon as we arrive.” For Roosevelt’s reply of November 20, 1943, see post, p. 101.↩
  2. The postscript was from Stalin; see Stalin’s Correspondence, vol. ii, p. 106.↩