February 19, 1942
 
TO THE PRESIDENT FROM MR. STALIN
 
 
     I have received your message informing
 
me of consignments of armaments from the
 
United States for January and February.
 
     I would like to emphasise the fact that
 
at the present moment, when the peoples of
 
the Soviet Union and its army are exerting all their powers to thrust back, by their
 
determined offensive, Hitler's troops, the fulfilment of American deliveries, including tanks and 
 
aeroplanes, is of the utmost impotrance for our common cause, for our further
 
successes.