A letter written in April 1943 by Sir Archibald Kerr, British Ambassador to Moscow, to Lord Pembroke. Originally uncovered by The Spectator in 1978.
Good lad.
Kerr shaking hands with US General George Marshall at the Tehran Conference in 1943
Standing outside the Russian embassy in Tehran, Iran, during the Tehran Conference, 28 November to 1 December 1943, left to right:
- Unidentified British officer
- General George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the US Army, shaking hands with
- Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, British ambassador to the USSR
- Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt’s closest confidant and chief emissary to British prime minister Winston Churchill
- Valentin Berezhkov, Marshal Stalin’s interpreter
- Marshal Josef Stalin
- Foreign minister Molotov
- General Voroshilov