550.E1/247: Telegram
The Ambassador in Italy ( Child ) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 6—2:10 p.m.]
31. Your unnumbered telegram of May 4, 7 p.m. Krassin wishes to meet me, but I propose that I do not see him until Russia has replied to the latest memorandum from the Allies, and it may be not at all. Unless I receive instructions, I will continue to be guided by my own discretion. Present status seems to me satisfactory and I consider American interests to be less endangered than was indicated by somewhat hysterical Paris reports. In answer to informal inquiry from the French delegates I have said that I could not discourage any proposal to have them here openly condemn all secret negotiations or bargains with Soviet Russia or with others, either while the Conference is in session or immediately after it adjourns.