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the Spring campaign with adequate equipment, particularly
in aircraft, tanks and A.A. guns.
     He expressed an urgent desire that the British
send large planes as soon as possible to bomb the Rumanian 
oilfields, and made a point of urging that pilots and crews 
be sent with the planes. He told me one of the great 
problems was to determine the ports of entry which were to 
be used for supplies; and that Archangel was difficult 
but not impossible; he was sure his icebreakers could keep 
the port free all winter. He stated that Vladivostok was 
dangerous because it would be out off by Japan at any time, 
and he feared the railroads and roads in Persia were 
inadequate. But all would have to be used for the 
present.
     Mr. Stalin expressed repeatedly his confidence
that the Russian lines would hold.
     No information given above was confirmed by
any other source.