Office of the Historian

740.00119 European War 1939/2527: Telegram

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

Moscow, April 25, 1944—10 p.m.
[Received April 26—7:06 a.m.]

1436. I asked Molotov today whether the Soviet Minister to Sofia had had anything of interest to report. He replied that from the Minister’s reports the Soviet Government considered that the proposed tripartite statement to the satellites of Germany59 applied in full to Bulgaria since the Bulgarian Government had sold its country to Germany and was actively assisting the Nazis. He said that the Soviet Government had addressed a statement to the Bulgarian Government to this effect.60 I asked him whether a copy of the statement had been transmitted to the United States Government. He said he did not know whether this had yet been done through Gromyko,61 but that in any event the statement was in the spirit of the abovementioned tripartite statement.

Harriman
  1. For statement as issued, May 12, 1944, see Department of State Bulletin, May 13, 1944, p. 425.↩
  2. See telegram 1468, April 27, 7 p.m., from Moscow, infra ↩
  3. Andrey Andreyevich Gromyko, Soviet Ambassador in the United States.↩