Message to W. Churchill (Correspondence Vol. 1, No. 346)

Your message of October 31 is to hand.
At the request of the Norwegian Government and in keeping with your previous message, I have instructed the Soviet military authorities to receive the Norwegian unit arriving at Murmansk from Britain and to send it to the liberated Norwegian territory, where it will be under the general guidance of the Soviet Command.
As for other Norwegian military groups, that, I think, is a matter for the Norwegian Government to decide. I have no specific proposals for British naval forces taking part in liberating Norway. Any step you might take towards that end would be

welcomed.
November 7, 1944