Office of the Historian

Hopkins Papers: Telegram

The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Presidents Special Assistant (Hopkins)1

secret
urgent
Moscow, 13 November 1943.

(Personal and secret for Hopkins from Harriman)

…2 No reply has been received to Secretary Hull’s November 2 regarding Italian ships.3 Molotov showed interest in knowing what is being done to implement our favorable reaction to their request. Molotov would probably be entirely satisfied if I could tell him that this matter would be discussed at the conference in Cairo but then he might want to bring a naval representative to discuss the matter.4

  1. Sent to Washington by the United States Naval Attaché Moscow, via Navy channels.↩
  2. For the portion of the telegram which is omitted here, see ante, p. 85.↩
  3. Ante, p. 149.↩
  4. See ante, p. 75.↩