740.0011 EW 1939/31399a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Standley)
Washington, September
21, 1943—11 a.m.
881. At the direction of the President and in view of the military situation in Italy, you are instructed to inform the Soviet Government that it is proposed to send the following message to General Eisenhower, the Allied Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean theater. In conveying this message to the Soviet Government you should transmit a very close paraphrase:
[Here follows text of message printed on page 373.]
Hull