Office of the Historian

740.0011 Moscow/256a: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)

Washington, November 9, 1943—5 p.m.

1180. Personal for the Ambassador. The President has handed to me your message no. 6100 sent via Navy.77 You are authorized to comply with Molotov’s request that your letter containing the message concerning Turkey be made a part of the secret military record of the Conference.

Stettinius

[A statement released to the press by Secretary of State Hull on November 10, 1943, upon his return to Washington from the Moscow Conference, is printed in Department of State Bulletin, November 13, 1943, page 319.]

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