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    "ocrText": "SECRET\nD-5\nsubmarines which might be threatened in Soviet ports\nby Japanese attack. The President suggested that\nthese questions could be discussed as Marshal Stalin\nmight \"find appropriate\" with the United States\nMilitary hission in Moscow (Doc. D, Attachment 2, p. D-27).\nIn a private conversation two days later,\nDecember 1, 1943, the President asked Marshal Stalin\nabout the memoranda. The Marshal replied that\n\"he had not had time to study the documents care-\nfully, but would take [them] up in Moscow with\nAmbassador Harriman\" (Doc. I, p. D-36) 1\n2. Soviet Access to Warm Water Ports\nThe President, Prime Minister Churchill and\nMarshal Stalin lunched together on November 30, 1943\nat 1:30 p.m. During the course of the luncheon the\nconversation turned to the great size of the Soviet\nUnion. Mr. Churchill said \"such a large land mass\nas Russia deserved the access to warm water ports\".\nadding that- the question would form part of the\npeace settlement which \"could be settled agreeably\nand as between friends\".\nAfter some general discussion concerning the\nDardanelles, Marshal Stalin asked \"what could be\ndone, for Russia in the Far East\". The Prime Minister\nsaid that he was interested to obtain the views of\nthe Soviet Government on the question of warm water\nports there. The Marshal replied that the Soviets had\ntheir views \"but it would perhaps be better to await\n1 John R. Deane, Commanding, General of the United\nStates Military Mission to the Soviet Union, who was\nat the Tehran Conference, stated that the Marshal's\nreply was conveyed to Ambassador Harriman on December 25,\n1943 by the Soviet Foreign, Minister. Mr. Molotov said\nthe \"Soviet Government was prepared to give us such\ninformation about the Japanese as could be obtained\nby their existing facilities\". As regards the other\nquestions contained in the President's memoranda, the\n\"Soviet Government considered some of them would require\nfurther study, while others, for reasons which the\nPresident would understand (meaning Soviet-Japanese\nneutrality), could not be answered 'at the present time'\nJohn R. Deane, The Strange Alliance, the Story of Our\nEfforts at Wartime Co-operation with Russia (New York,\n1947) ; p. 227."
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