Thank you very much for your message, transmitted in Kuibyshev on March 12. Please accept the Soviet Government's gratitude for the information on the steps you have taken to ensure deliveries to the U.S.S.R. and to intensify the air offensive against Germany.

I feel entirely confident that the combined efforts of our troops occasional setbacks notwithstanding, will culminate in crushing the common enemy and that the year 1942 will see a decisive turn on the anti-Hitler front.

As to paragraph one of your message - concerning the frontiers of the U.S.S.R. - I think we still shall have to exchange views on the text of an appropriate treaty, if it is approved for signing by both parties.