Message from M. Stalin to Mr. Churchill dated July 31st 1942
 
                                                            
 
 
I received both your messages July 31st. On behalf of Soviet 
      Government I invite you to USSR to meet members of Government. 
      I would be very grateful if you could come to USSR to consider 
      jointly urgent questions of war against Hitler as menace from 
      these quarters to Great Britain, U.S.A. and USSR just now reached 
                  a special degree of intensity.            
 
                                                            
 
 
I think most suitable meeting place would be Moscow as neither 
      I nor members of Government and leading men of general staff 
      could leave the capital at moment of such an intense struggle 
                         against Germans.                   
 
                                                            
 
 
The presence of Chief of Imperial General Staff would be extremely 
                            desirable.                      
 
                                                            
 
 
Date of meeting please fix yourself in accordance with time 
      necessary to complete your business at Cairo. You may be sure 
      beforehand that any date would suit me. Let me express my gratitude 
      for your consent to send next convoy with war materials for USSR 
      at beginning of September. In spite of extreme difficulty to 
      divert aircraft from battlefront we will take all possible measures 
      to increase aerial protection of convoy.Stalin.