740.0011 European War 1939/26441: Telegram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Henderson) to the Secretary of State 71
[Received December 12—9:35 a.m.]
1082. Your 620, December 9, 1 [6] p.m., received here this morning. I am leaving for Moscow by earliest available transportation in [Page 484] order to carry out the instructions contained therein and shall probably see Molotov Monday or Tuesday.72 I would appreciate in the meantime such clarification as the Department may be able to telegraph me at Moscow with regard to the sentence beginning, “This will not be the case.” Molotov is certain to ask me who the “other Frenchmen” are and perhaps in what respect their political aims have “never been ‘gone along with’ by the Government”. Without such clarification I shall not be able to answer these questions and I fear that consequently our conversation may not be fully satisfactory.