Roosevelt Papers: Telegram
Marshal Stalin to President Roosevelt1
Personal and strictly confidential message from Premier J. V. Stalin to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
[Page 83]I consider necessary to inform You that I have sent today a message to Mr. Churchill of the following content:
“Today I have received two messages of Yours.2
Although I had already written to the President,3 that Mr. V. M. Molotov would be in Cairo by November 22, I have, however, to say that due to some reasons, which are of a serious character, Mr. Molotov, unfortunately, cannot come to Cairo. He will be able to be in Teheran at the end of November and will come there together with me. And some military men will come with me.
It goes without saying that in Teheran a meeting of only three heads of the Governments is to take place as it was agreed upon. And the participation of the representatives of any other countries must be absolutely excluded.
I wish success to Your conference with the Chinese on Far Eastern Affairs.”
November 12, 1943.
- Apparently sent via the Soviet Embassy, Washington. No record has been found of the forwarding of this message by the White House Map Room to Roosevelt during his trip. As the Map Room was keeping to a minimum its telegraphic messages to the U. S. S. Iowa, those in charge of the Map Room may have felt that it was unnecessary to forward this message, which was largely repetitious.↩
- One of these messages from Churchill to Stalin is the message repeated to Roosevelt in Churchill’s telegram 500, November 10, 1943, ante, p. 78. The other message (which was of lesser importance) was not repeated to Roosevelt. Both messages are printed in Stalin’s Correspondence, vol. i, pp. 175 and 176.↩
- See Stalin’s message of November 10, 1943, ante, p. 78.↩