740.0011 European War 1939/30310: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Standley) to the Secretary of State
[Received 7:36 p.m.]
924. Pravda for July 22 published prominently a Tass39 despatch from New York utilizing American newspaper statements regarding the Sicilian operations in such a manner as to minimize their significance especially in comparison with developments on the Russian front.40 The item reports that many American papers state that these operations despite their brilliant success “are not a second front which is necessary for the speedy destruction of Hitlerism”. This statement is supported by quotations from the New York Sun, the Dallas Morning News, the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Post which argue that the Sicilian successes show that a real second front is possible now and advocate its immediate opening as the only way to, shorten the war.
- Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union, official communications agency of-the Soviet Government.↩
- Ambassador Standley had already pointed out in his telegram No. 907, July 21, 10 a.m., that American press statements on the Allied Sicilian campaign were being printed “in such fashion as to constitute a Soviet comment on the significance of the operation.” (740.0011 European War 1939/30271)↩