Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1945, General: Political and Economic Matters, Volume II

740.00119 Council/12–945: Telegram

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

[Sochi,]⁷⁶ December 9, 1945.

I thank you for the message of December 8, 1945.⁷⁷ You can be sure that I should like to cooperate with you as well so that the forthcoming Conference of the three Ministers in Moscow would give desirable results in the interests of our common cause.

I shall be in Moscow in the nearest future and I am ready to converse with Mr. Byrnes with full frankness.

[

J. V. Stalin

]

76. Stalin was still on vacation at Sochi on the Black Sea at the time of the sending of this telegram; he did not return to Moscow until December 17.
77. See telegram 2478, December 8, noon, to Moscow, p. 603.