121.861/170a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Standley)
415. Unless you perceive some objection thereto please address a communication to Mr. Molotov the text of which should be somewhat as follows:
“The Secretary of State has requested that I convey to you his appreciation of the courtesy which Mr. Stalin and you and other members of the Soviet Government, as well as Soviet civil and military officials, displayed to Mr. Joseph E. Davies and his party while they were in the Soviet Union. The Secretary has asked me to add that the reports which Mr. Davies brought back with him together with those which have been received from the United States Embassy in Moscow have strengthened his conviction that the United States and the Soviet Union are entering an era of cooperation which promises to be of benefit not only to these two countries but also to other countries struggling against the Axis aggressors.”