U.S. NAVAL COMMUNICATION SERVICE
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FROM: OPNAV         161805 BLACK 43
 
TO: THE PRESIDENT
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FOR THE PRESIDENT AT SEA.
 
     STEINHARDT REPORTS THAT ONE HE AND CRIPPS DELIVERED THE
MESSAGE TO STALIN AND MOLOTOV THE EVENING OF AUGUST FIFTEENTH. 
TWO STALIN REQUESTED US TO TRANSMIT ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE AND
GOVERNMENT OF THE SOVIET UNION QUOTE 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 UNQUOTE AND ADDED THAT HE WAS READY TO FACILITATE THE
MEETING OF AMERICAN, BRITISH AND SOVIET REPRESENTATIVES.  THREE
STALIN THEREUPON DICTATED TO YOU AND CHURCHILL THE MESSAGE WHICH
HAS APPEARED IN FULL IN THE PRESS X FOUR STALIN STATED THAT HE WAS
NOT SATISFIED WITHT HE PROGRESS OF THE WAR; THAT THE UKRAINE
SITUATION WAS QUOTE THAT SOVIET FORCES MUST LEAVE NIKOLAEV QUOTE
TODAY OR TOMORROW UNQUOTE AND THAT ALTHOUGH GERMAN LOSSES HAVE
BEEN HEAVY QUOTE THEY HAVE MORE PLANS AND TANKS THAN WE UNQUOTE
 
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16 AUGUST 1941