U.S. State Department (January 16, 1944)
Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt
London, 16 January, 1944
Secret
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Prime Minister to President. Personal and most secret.
… My recollection is clear that nothing was said at Tehran about “one third” but that promise was made to meet the Russian claim put forward at Moscow to have transferred to them one battleship, one cruiser, eight destroyers, four submarines, and forty thousand tons of merchant shipping.
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