Office of the Historian

The Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union (Stalin) to President Roosevelt 60

I have received your messages of July 28.61

I share your opinion regarding the significance which our meeting could have, but circumstances, connected with military operations on our front about which I wrote previously, do not allow me, to my regret, to count on an opportunity of such a meeting in the nearest future.62

As regards the Polish question, the matter depends, first of all, on the Poles themselves and on the capability of these or other persons from the Polish émigré government to cooperate with the already functioning in Poland Polish Committee of National Liberation around which more and more are rallying the democratic forces of Poland. On my part, I am ready to render to all Poles any possible assistance in this matter.

August 2, 1944.
  1. Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.↩
  2. The messages were sent on July 27; for texts, see ante, p. 1300, and Foreign Relations, The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945, p. 4.↩
  3. A meeting was held at Quebec September 11–16, 1944 (the Second Quebec Conference), attended by Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt with their civilian and military advisers. Premier Stalin did not attend.↩