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    "ocrText": "J. 333305MONO-State\nGalley\n59\nUNCORRECTED GALLEY PROOF\nRoosevelt Papers: Telegram\nThe Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the President 1\n1\nSent by the United States Naval Attaché, Moscow, via Navy channels.\nTOP SECRET\nMoscow, 24 September 1944.\nPersonal and Top Secret for the eyes of the President only from\nHarriman.\nThis evening I explained to Marshal Stalin that you had asked\nGeneral Hurley to call on him to explain your concern over China and\nto give him personally a message regarding a future meeting. Stalin\ninterrupted to say that he had been ill with the grippe when Hurley\nwas in Moscow, that in the past he had been able to shake it in a few\ndays but that this time he had been ill for several weeks. He looked\nmore worn out than I have ever seen him and not as yet fully re-\ncovered. I explained that you had in mind a meeting in the latter\npart of November and that as it was too late for Alaska the Mediter-\nranean might provide a suitable place. He said that a meeting was\nvery desirable but that he was afraid his doctors would not allow him\nto travel. It had taken him two weeks to get over an ear attack he\nhad had from his flight from Teheran and his recent illness had been\ndue to a trip to the front. I suggested that the warm weather in the\nMediterranean would do him good but he said his doctors considered\nany change of climate would have a bad effect. Molotov claimed\nthat his associates felt Stalin must protect his health and that travel-\nling was not good for him. Stalin then said that Molotov was\nstrong and vigorous and that as his Deputy a man in whom he had\ngreat confidence he could meet you and the Prime Minister any time\nyou wished. I assured Stalin that you liked Molotov and were\nalways glad to see him but suggested that his doctors might later on\ntake a different view of the desirability of a warm climate particularly\nif the trip would be made by sea. Jokingly I suggested also the\npossibility of his having some new doctors by that time. He agreed\nthat might be a good idea but gave no further encouragement. I am\nsatisfied that Stalin is anxious to meet you but he is definitely worried\nabout his health. Although Stalin showed the effects of his grippe\nI do not feel that you need have any concern over the possibility of\nserious illness.\nRoosevelt Papers: Telegram\nThe President to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) 1\n1 Sent to the United States Naval Attaché, Moscow, via Navy channels.\nTOP SECRET\n[WASHINGTON,] 4 October 1944.\nPRIORITY\nNumber 76. Top Secret and Personal from the President to Am-\nbassador Harriman.\nYour number\n[telegram of October 3] received.²\n2 Not printed.\nWill you please deliver the following message to Marshal Stalin at\nonce:\n\"While I had hoped that the next meeting could have been between\nyou, Churchill and myself, I appreciate that the Prime Minister wishes\nto have an early conference with you."
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