I am very grateful to you for the friendly sentiments and good wishes expressed on the occasion of our signing the new treaty. I am certain that this treaty will be of great importance in promoting friendly relations between the Soviet Union and Great Britain, as well as between our two countries and the United States, and that it will ensure close cooperation by our three countries after victory. I also hope that your meeting with Molotov on his way back from the United States will make it possible to complete the work left unfinished.

As to measures for covering the convoy, you may rest assured that we are doing and will continue to do our utmost in this respect. Please accept my sincere good wishes and the expression of firm confidence in our common complete victory.