800.51W89 U.S.S.R./126: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State
[Received 10:44 p.m.]
316. Your 246 of September 15, 2 p.m. I should of course be delighted to see Kelley here at any moment and consult. Regretted greatly that he has not already come. The sooner he arrives the better I shall be pleased. On the other hand as I cabled you in my 304 of September 15, 9 p.m., I believe it would be inadvisable for me to attempt to carry this matter to Stalin until we have devised some method of overcoming the objection of the Soviet Government with regard to complicating its relations with France and England. Krestinski this morning reiterated to me that this was the chief difficulty of the Soviet Government. I asked Krestinski if he himself had been able to devise as to method of meeting this difficulty which might conceivably be acceptable to the Government of the United States. He threw out various suggestions in a manner so casual that I desire to have them in much more official form before bothering the Department with regard to them. If he should develop these suggestions further during the next few days I shall not fail to inform the Department at once.
Pending further developments in this matter I am not in a position to advise the Department definitely whether or not Mr. Kelley will find it worth while to come to Moscow at the moment.