Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1942, General; the British Commonwealth; the Far East, Volume I

740.00116 European War 1939/674a: Telegram

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

Washington , December 12, 1942—8 p.m.

6308. Department’s 6291, December 11, midnight. The Soviet Ambassador⁵² has proposed the following amendment to the joint declaration:

“After the sentence concerning the deliberate extermination of Jews by way of mass executions add: ‘The number of victims of these sanguinary punishments is taken to amount to many hundreds of thousands of quite innocent men, women and children’.”

This amendment is entirely satisfactory to the Department.

Hull

52. Maxim Maximovich Litvinov.