Telegram to I.M. Maisky, October 19, 1942

Source: Tom 18

To Comrade Maisky

All of us in Moscow have the impression that Churchill is oriented toward the defeat of the USSR, in order thereafter to reach an agreement with the Germany of Hitler or Bruning at the expense of our country. Without such a supposition it is impossible to explain Churchill's conduct on the question of the second front in Europe, his conduct on the question of arms supplies to the USSR, which are shrinking by the month, despite growing Soviet production and growing Soviet needs, and finally, it is impossible to explain the fact of the Anglo-American treaty with Italy's Darlan. This must be borne in mind and treated alertly. Churchill's campaign against Darlan is only a smoke screen. Churchill himself is capable of an even more serious deal.

Stalin