Office of the Historian

840.48/5115: Telegram

The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State

London, September 23, 1941—2 p.m.
[Received September 23—10:06 a.m.]

4471. Embassy’s 4458, September 22, 7 p.m.25 The Foreign Office informs me that the Allied meeting tomorrow morning will open in private for organization purposes and then be opened to the public with journalists present.

There has been no substantive change in the draft resolution quoted in my No. 3615, August 23 [13], 9 p.m., except in paragraph 6 which now provides that the bureau to be established by the British Government will report to an Inter-Allied committee under the chairmanship of Leith-Ross.

The draft resolution will be proposed in a speech by Mr. Eden during the course of which he will make the statement authorized on behalf of the United States. Mr. Maisky26 will deliver a statement of the policy of the Russian Government. There will be a resolution by the Allied Governments to adhere to the Atlantic Charter.27 The Polish and Czech representatives will separately state their views of the application of the Charter to their countries but according to the Foreign [Page 110] Office these are not in the nature of reservations. The Polish and Czech representatives will also make a joint statement of solidarity. Minutes of the meeting will be supplied to the Embassy.

Winant

[A report of the Inter-Allied Meeting of September 24, 1941, is printed as British Cmd. 6315, Miscellaneous No. 3 (1941): Inter-Allied Meeting Held in London at St. James’s Palace on September 24, 1941, Report of Proceedings.]

  1. Not printed.↩
  2. Ivan Maisky, Soviet Ambassador in the United Kingdom.↩
  3. Vol. i, p. 367.↩