740.00119 European War 1939/1618: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Standley)
749. Department’s 637, August 3, 2 p.m. The text of instrument for surrender of Italy has just been agreed upon by the President and Prime Minister Churchill. The full text has been telegraphed by the British Foreign Office to Clark Kerr together with instructions containing the observations he should make in transmitting this document to Marshal Stalin. In order to avoid delay connected with transmitting these documents to you by telegraph, you should obtain them from your British colleague and communicate on behalf of this Government the text of instrument of surrender to Marshal Stalin with the statement that this Government associates itself fully with the oral statements made by the British Ambassador to Stalin. In transmitting this document to Stalin, please inform him that the present instrument of surrender does not supersede but includes all the military clauses contained in annex 2 of the British aide-mémoire quoted in my reference telegram as well as political and economic conditions of surrender.
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