Document 122 To Molotov: Telegram from Moscow. Received in London at 6.40 p.m., 10 June 1942

In concrete terms, the proposal he is to make consists in the following: "Can the allies of the Soviet Union, Britain in the first place, draw off at least 40 German divisions f rom our front in the summer and autumn of 1942 and tie them up in f ighting a battle in Western Europe. If this can be done, the question of putting Hitler to rout might be decided in 1942; at any rate, the rout might be predetermined this year. Can the Allies do that? We would like to know the British Government's answer to this question."