740.0011 Moscow/183: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
[Received 2:10 p.m.]
1911. Personal for the Secretary, my 1901, November 10, 5 p.m. With further reference to Litvinov’s talk yesterday to the representatives of the United Nations in Moscow I should add that he prefaced his remarks by saying that he was sorry there had been a week’s delay in making the information regarding the work of the Conference available and he said that this had been done in order to permit the Secretary and Mr. Eden to reach home so that they could if desired similarly inform the representatives of the United Nations in Washington and London.
The reaction of the few United Nations representatives in Moscow whom I have seen since Litvinov’s meeting has been that while the [Page 703] talk was totally unexpected it was well received as a friendly gesture on the part of the Soviet Union to emphasize United Nations solidarity. Litvinov’s blunt statement in regard to Turkey has caused surprise and comment.
[The text of Secretary of State Hull’s address regarding the Moscow Conference, before a joint meeting of both Houses of Congress on November 18, 1943, is printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 89, pt. 7, page 9677; also in Department of State Bulletin, November 20, 1943, page 341.]