ABSTRACT
Full understanding was reached during the conversations between Mr M. V. Molotov and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Mr W. Churchill, with regard to the urgent tasks of creating a second front in Europe in 1942. Discussions also took place on measures to increase and accelerate the supply of aircraft, tanks and other war material to be sent from Great Britain to the Soviet Union. Mr C. Attlee, Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, Mr A. Eden, Foreign Secretary, Admiral D. Pound, Chief of Naval Staff, Lieutenant-General A. Nye, Vice-Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Marshal C. Portal, Chief of Air Staff, ViceAdmiral Lord Mountbatten, Chief of Combined Operations, and Major-General H. Ismay, Chief of the Minister of Defence Staff, took part in the conversations on the British side, and Major-General Isayev and Rear-Admiral N. Kharlamov, head of the Soviet military mission in Great Britain, on the Soviet side. Both sides were gratified to note the identity of their views on all the above questions."
