Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1940, General, Volume I

761.62/801: Telegram

The Chargé in Germany (Morris) to the Secretary of State

Berlin, November 14, 1940—4 p.m.
[Received November 15—5:20 a.m.]

4708. My 4700, November 13, 5 p.m. After having been entertained at lunch yesterday by Hitler and having had a long conversation yesterday evening with Ribbentrop, Molotov left for Moscow this forenoon.

The following communiqué has been issued with reference to the Soviet-German conversations.

“During his stay in Berlin on the 12th and 13th of November of this year the President of the Council of People’s Commissars and Foreign Commissar, W. [V.] M. Molotov, had conversations with the Fuhrer and with the Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs, Von Ribbentrop.

The exchange of opinions took place in an atmosphere of reciprocal trust and led to mutual agreement in all important questions that interest Germany and the Soviet Union.”⁵³

Morris

53. German accounts of the conversations held during Molotov’s visit in Berlin are published in Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939–1941, pp. 217–255.