(Untitled), 05 Dec 1944

Item

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/176/83-84

Scope and Contents

Telegram from WSC to Marshal Stalin marked "Personal and Top Secret" stating that he has no objections to a Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance and suggesting that a tripartite agreement is concluded with the United Kingdom; that the question of extending France's eastern frontier to the left bank of the Rhine should be decided at a post-war peace conference; hoping that General de Gaulle [President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic] will be invited to some sessions of the next meeting between President Roosevelt, Stalin and WSC; suggesting that the question of France's frontier is put to the European Advisory Commission in London.

Dates

Creation: 05 Dec 1944

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