TK                                 Moscow
This Telegram must be
 closely paraphrased be-                Dated August 15, 1941
fore being communicated
to anyone. ( SC ).                      Rec'd 3:30 a.m., 16th
 
 
Secretary of State
 
     Washington
 
     TRIPLE PRIORITY .
 
     1508, August 15, 8 p.m.
 
     SECRET FOR THE PRESIDENT, THE SECRETARY AND UNDER SECRETARY.
 
     My 1507, August 15, 7 p.m.
 
     When we were received by Stalin, Cripps and I handed to him our respective copies of the
joint message. After he had read the message in translation Stalin immediately requested Cripps
and me to transmit on behalf of the people of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Government his
"great thanks for the readiness of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to render help
to the Soviet Union in its war of freedom against Hitlerism", and stated that he was ready to
facilitate a meeting of American, British and Soviet representatives as suggested in the message.
     He thereupon dictated, the following message to
                                   the President