811.003 Wallace, Henry A./6–2744: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 27—5:20 p.m.]
2305. Press for June 27 published following dated Alma Ata, June 17, 1944:
“Letter of Vice President of the United States, Mister H. A. Wallace, to Comrade J. V. Stalin.
My Dear Marshal Stalin: On the eve of my departure from the city of Alma Ata for China I should like to express to you my deep gratitude for the splendid cordial hospitality shown toward me during my 3 weeks” visit to Siberia and Soviet Central Asia. The official representatives and the people whom I met in towns and villages, on collective farms, in factories and mines, impressed me by their initiative, capacity and skill, and also by their constant courtesy in helping me to acquaint myself as well as possible with the plans and problems facing them, and with their great achievements.
I found especially interesting the agricultural experiment and selection stations, a great number of which I visited along the whole route from Magadan to Alma Ata. They are doing outstanding work for the benefit of the state and collective farms and innumerable victory gardens. The progress and achievements attained by the Yakuts, [Page 973] Buryat-Mongols, Kazakhs and Uzbeks made a particularly deep impression upon me. The policy of the Government of the USSR which has made this progress and these achievements possible is clear evidence of the most outstanding and gifted political leadership.
I want to thank you again for the opportunity given me to see for myself the enormous army of men and women in Siberia and Central Asia who are lighting to achieve victory in the factories and on the farms.
May our two great nations working in close harmony make their contribution to the cause of the prosperity of the whole world by the same abundant production in peacetime as was achieved by them during the war.
Ambassador Harriman will transmit to you this expression of gratitude together with my best wishes and greetings.
Henry A. Wallace, Alma Ata, June 17, 1944.”