Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1943, The British Commonwealth, Eastern Europe, the Far East, Volume III

740.0011 European War 1939/27729: Telegram

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

Kuibyshev (Moscow), February 3, 1943—4 p.m.
[Received February 4—11:45 a.m.]

103. A neutral colleague has informed me that a member of the Bulgarian Legation here recently told him that while the strong Russo-phile sentiment in Bulgaria would not permit the sending of Bulgarian troops to aid the Germans on the Russian front, the Bulgarian Army would as a matter of course fight side by side with the Axis forces in the event of the opening of a second front anywhere else on the Continent.

Standley