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6100. Personal for the President. I delivered personally your message concerning Turkey74 to Molotov in the form of a letter. Molotov expressed the highest satisfaction at its contents and offered no objection whatsoever to the proviso which it contained. He proposed that your agreement as expressed in my letter be attached to the protocol concerning Turkey which he and Eden had signed, the text of which I have already cabled you,75 and that these two documents be made a part of the most secret separate military record of the Conference. His anxiety to have this agreement part of the action of the Conference is I believe due to the fact that he is personally under some criticism by the Soviet military authorities for not obtaining action on this matter at the Conference. I see no objection to his proposal and [Page 700] ask that you authorize me to put it into effect.76 He discussed the above with the British Ambassador who is cabling Eden for similar authorization.
- Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.↩
- See telegram of November 4, 12:40 p.m., p. 698.↩
- See telegram No. 022252, November 2, 10:52 p.m., p. 697.↩
- In a telegram of November 8 (printed in Foreign Relations, The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943, p. 161) President Roosevelt authorized Ambassador Harriman to attach the United States agreement regarding Turkey to the protocol, subject to the substitution of the words “Combined Chiefs of Staff” for “commanders responsible”.↩