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    "ocrText": "J. .333305MONO-State\nGalley\n57\nUNCORRECTED GALLEY PROOF\n1. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONFERENCES¹\n1 For a memorandum by Harry Hopkins, dated October 19, 1945, on the genesis\nof the Yalta Conference, see Sherwood, pp. 843-845.\nRoosevelt Papers: Telegram\nPresident Roosevelt to Marshal Stalin 2\nTOP SECRET\n[WASHINGTON,] 17 July 1944.\nPRIORITY\n2\nSent to the United States Naval Attaché, Moscow, via Navy channels.\nNumber 27. Top Secret and Personal. From the Prosident for\nMarshal Stalin.\nThings are moving SO. fast and so successfully that I feel there\nshould be a meeting between you and Mr. Churchill and me in the\nreasonably near future. The Prime Minister is in hearty accord\nwith this thought. I am now on a trip in the far West and must be\nin Washington for several weeks on my return. It would, therefore,\nbe best for me to have a meeting between the tenth and fifteenth of\nSeptember. The most central point for you and me would be the\nnorth of Scotland. I could go by ship and you could come either by\nship or by plane. Your Army is doing so magnificently that the hop\nwould be much shorter to Scotland than the one taken by Molotov\ntwo years ago.³ I hope you can let me have your thoughts. Secrecy\n3-A footnote on the original indicates that the underscored sentence was deleted\nbefore delivery to Stalin. See the two following documents.\nand security can be maintained either aboard ship or on shore.\nROOSEVELT\nRoosevelt Papers: Telegram\nThe Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the President 1\nTOP SECRET\nMoscow, 18 July 1944.\n1 Sent by the United States Naval Attaché, Moscow, via Navy channels.\nPersonal and Top Secret for the President from Harriman.\nI recommend that you consider omitting from your message to\nMarshal Stalin your\n[No. 27] the following sentence \"Your\nArmy is doing so magnificently that the hop would be much shorter to\nScotland than the one taken by Molotov two years ago\". The impli-\ncation of this sentence is that Marshal Stalin should fly over enemy\noccupied territory. Because of the dangers inherent in such a flight\nI feel there may be resentment on the part of Stalin's principal advisors\nwhich might jeopardize the prospects of the meeting itself. Because\nof the real fear that I have of such a reaction by the Soviets I have\ntaken the liberty of holding delivery of your message awaiting your\nreply."
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