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- 1941 Sep 3 - Nov 12 (Creation)
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Carbon copies of telegrams between Prime Minister Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, and Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin including telegram from Stalin to Churchill requesting the British cause a diversion in France to take German troops away from the Eastern Front, 3 Sep 1941; with correspondence between Churchill and Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, and reply from Churchill to Stalin dismissing the possibility, 4-5 Sep 1941 and telegram from Churchill to Stalin on sending Gen Sir Archibald Percival Wavell and Gen Bernard Charles Tolver Paget to meet with Stalin, on supplies, and on whether Britain should declare war on Finland, Hungary and Rumania, 4 Nov 1941; copy of reply from Stalin to Churchill responding to these issues and commenting on the lack of clarity in Anglo-Soviet relations, 12 Nov 1941.