<P> Stalin was reluctant to leave Moscow and was unwilling to risk journeys by air, while Roosevelt was physically disabled and found travel difficult . Churchill was an avid traveller and, as part of an ongoing series of wartime conferences, had already met with Roosevelt five times in North America and twice in Africa and had also held two prior meetings with Stalin in Moscow . In order to arrange this urgently needed meeting, Roosevelt tried to persuade Stalin to travel to Cairo . Stalin turned down this offer and also offers to meet in Baghdad or Basra, finally agreeing to meet in Tehran in November 1943 . </P> <P> The conference was to convene at 16: 00 on 28 November 1943 . Stalin arrived well before, followed by Roosevelt, brought in his wheelchair from his accommodation adjacent to the venue . Roosevelt, who had traveled 7,000 miles (11,000 km) to attend and whose health was already deteriorating, was met by Stalin . This was the first time that they had met . Churchill, walking with his general staff from their accommodations nearby, arrived half an hour later . According to Charles Bohlen, translator for FDR, FDR was accompanied by Averell Harriman and Harry Hopkins . Stalin was accompanied by Molotov and Voroshilov . Churchill brought Anthony Eden and Lord Ismay, and his translator was Major Arthur Birse . </P> <P> As Stalin had been advocating for a second front since 1941, he was very pleased and felt that he had accomplished his principal goal for the meeting . Moving on, Stalin agreed to enter the war against Japan once Germany was defeated . </P> <P> Stalin pressed for a revision of Poland's eastern border with the Soviet Union to match the line set by British Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon in 1920 . In order to compensate Poland for the resulting loss of territory, the three leaders agreed to move the German - Polish border to the Oder and Neisse rivers . This decision was not formally ratified, however, until the Potsdam Conference of 1945 . </P>

Which leader in 1943 wanted to open a second front in europe during the war against germany