800.515/1029b: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)
980. From the Secretary of the Treasury. Reference yours of last night.32 I am most grateful for your help in securing a favorable reply. Please deliver this personal message to the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs and the People’s Commissar of Finance.
“I wish to express my sincere thanks for your decision to have the experts of the Soviet Union associate themselves with the principles of the Joint Statement of experts recommending the establishment of an International Monetary Fund. We regard the publication of the Joint Statement as of the greatest importance. It is further evidence [Page 128] that our two countries are determined to work side by side in the solution of international monetary and financial problems.
I am in accord with the circumstances mentioned in your message. I assume you will instruct the technical financial delegation of the Soviet Union to associate themselves with the principles of the Joint Statement. They have already been informed of the substance of your message.”
Hull
[The text of the Joint Statement by Experts on the Establishment of an International Monetary Fund of United and Associated Nations, released April 21, 1944, with a foreword by the Secretary of the Treasury, is printed in Department of State publication No. 2866: Proceedings and Documents of the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, July 1–22, 1944 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1948), volume II, page 1629.
For text of the statement made by the Secretary of the Treasury before the Senate and House committees on April 21, 1944, see Federal Reserve Bulletin, May 1944, page 436.
On April 22, 1944, the Secretary of State issued a statement regarding the progress report which the Secretary of the Treasury had made before the Senate and House committees; for text of statement, see Department of State Bulletin, April 22, 1944, page 371.]