ABSTRACT
Government. It had seemed to him that Britain had great freedom of movement in her relations with other countries. The cause of the difficulty in reaching an agreement lay, perhaps, in this underestimation of the role America plays in the British Government. Comrade Stalin was in no way hurt by the fact that Britain had not been able to establish a second front or dispatch her t roops to the USSR. Comrade Stalin sent his message to Churchill on 6 November, when the situation was much better for Britain than it was today, while the situation on the Soviet front was much worse than today. The situation had changed since then, and this change should be taken into consideration. Comrade Stalin did not intend asking the impossible and therefore did not insist on sending British troops to the Soviet front. If the British Government was prepared to take part in operations at Petsamo, he could not but welcome this and was ready to arrange a rendezvous for General Nye wi th Chief of the Soviet General Staff Marshal Shaposhnikov.
