TO: JOSEPH STALIN
FROM: THE PRESIDENT
 
     WE ARE HAVING GRAVE DIFICULTIES WITH THE NORTHERN
 
CONVOY ROUTE BUT ARE MAKING EVERY EFFORT TO OVERCOME THEM. YOU
ARE NO DOUBT AWARE OF THESE HAZARDS PARTICUALRY GERMAN BOMBERS
OPERATING FROM NORTHERN NORWAY. DO YOU THINK THERE IS ANY
POSSIBILITY OF THESE FIELDS BEING AT LEAST PARTIALLY IMMOBILIZED BY
YOUR AIR FORCE? I AM IN CONSTANT TOUCH WITH THE BRITISH RELATIVE TO
THIS MATTER AND YOU MAY BE SURE THAT WE WILL TAKE APPROPRIATE RISKS
TO GET THE STUFF THROUGH TO YOU. IT MAY BE THAT THE NEXT CONVOY OR
TWO MIGHT NOT BE AS LARGE AS WE HAD HOPED BUT I AM MAKING EVERY
EFFORT TO AUDJUST THIS. I HAVE WORD THIS MORNING OF ADMIRAL
STANDLEY'S CORDIAL RECEPTION BY YOU AND WISH TO EXPRESS MY
APPRECIATION. I AM LOOKING FOWARD TO SEEING MOLOTOV AND THE
MOMENT I HEAR OF ROUTE WE SHALL MAKLE PREPARTIONS TO PROVIDE ME
WITH THE WHITE HOUSE HE IS IN WASHINGTON.