740.0011 European War 1939/23606: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Standley) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 19—1:21 p.m.]
304. My 303, August 17 [18], 4 p.m.25 The communiqué reads as follows:
[“]Anglo-Soviet communiqué on the negotiations of the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Mr. Winston Churchill, with the President of the Council of the People’s Commissars of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, J. V. Stalin.
Negotiations have taken place in Moscow between the President of the Council of the People’s Commissars of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, J. V. Stalin, and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill, in which Mr. Harriman, representing the President of the United States of America, participated. There took part in the discussions: The People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs, V. M. Molotov, Marshall K. E. Voroshilov from the Soviet Side; the British Ambassador Sir A. Clark Kerr, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Sir A. Brooke and other responsible representatives of the British Armed Forces, and the Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Alexander Cadogan from the British side.
[Page 624]A number of decisions were reached covering the field of the war against Hitlerite Germany, her associates in Europe. This just war of liberation both Governments are determined to carry on with all their power and energy until the complete destruction of Hitlerism and any similar tyranny has been achieved.
The discussions which were carried on in an atmosphere of cordiality and complete sincerity provided an opportunity of reaffirming the existence of close friendship and understanding between the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the United States of America in entire accordance with the Allied relationship existing between them.”
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