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TRANSLATION. FROM GENERALISSIMO JOSEPH V. STALIN TO PRESIDENT MR. HARRY S. TRUMAN. I have received your message of May I9. To my regret I do not have the opportunity to give you a more or less certain reply until the final prospects of the new harvest are ascertained. As it is known the prospects of the new harvest in our country are made clear not earlier than at the end of June. As to the Far East your data on the food supplies of the USSR in the Far East does not square with reality. The Far East is one of those regions of the USSR where bread is usually brought from other regions. Our million army before entering Manchuria as it is obviously known to you had had only two months supplies of food. But the army had to stay in Manchuria for the reasons known to you about 8 months during which it was compelled to provide itself with the foodstuff from local resources and still the Soviet Government was to bring additional food for its army to the Far East all the time due to insufficiency of the local resources. May 26, I946.