To: Josef Stalin Moscow The crisis in Egypt with its threat to the supply route to Russia has led Prime Minister Churchill to send me an urgent message asking whether forty A twenty bombers destined for Russia and now in Iraq can be transferred to the battle in Egypt. It is impossible for me to express a judgement on this matter because of limited information here. I am therefore asking that you make the decision in the interest of total war effort. Roosevelt |
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