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    "ocrText": "CEORET\nDECLASSIFIED\nB.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or @\nDept. of State letter. Aug. 10, 1072\nNARS Date 2-12-76\nTHE PRIME MINISTER and THE PRESIDENT expressed agreement\nwith Marshal Stalin's views.\nAfter some discussion of the great size of the Soviet Union,\nduring which Marshal Stalin admitted frankly that had Fussia not.\nhad at her disposal such a vast territory the Germans would have\nprobably won the victory, the Prime Minister said that he felt\nthat such a large land mass as Russia deserved the access to\nwarm water ports. He said that the question would of course form\npart of the peace settlement, and he observed that it could be\nsettled agreeably and as between friends.\nMARSHAL STALIN replied that at the proper time that question\ncould be is cussed, but that since Mr. Churchill had raised the\nquestion he would like to inquire as to the regime of the Dar-\ndanelles. He said that since Engl. and no longer objected, it\nwould be well to relax that regime.\nTHE PRIVE MINISTER replied that England had now no objections\nto Russia's access to warm water ports, although he admitted that\nin the past she had. He questioned, however, the advisability\nof doing anything about the Straits at the tie, as we were all\ntrying to get Turkey to enter the war.\nMARSHAL STALIN said there was no need to hurry about that\nquestion, but that he was merely interested in discussing it here\nin general.\nTHE PRIME MINISTER replied that Great Britain saw no objec-\ntions to this legitimate question, and that furthermore we all\nhoped to see Russian fleets, both naval and merchant, on all\nseas of the world.\nMARSHAL STALIN said that Lord Curzon had had other ideas.\nTHE PRIME MINISTER replied that that was true, and that it\nwould be idle to deny that in those days Russia and England did\nnot see eye to eye.\nMARSHAL STALIN replied that Russia also was quite different\nin those days.\n- 2 -\nSEODET"
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