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740.00119 EAC/175: Telegram

The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State

London, May 8, 1944—2 p.m.
[Received 3:21 p.m.]

3726. Cornea 57. On April 21 I wrote Gousev70 regarding surrender terms for Bulgaria on the basis of the Department’s 3147, April 19, midnight and the Department’s 2035, March 17, 10 p.m. I have just received a letter from Gousev in which he states:

“I am now in a position to say that there is no objection on my part to discussing terms of surrender for Bulgaria in the European Advisory Commission.”

Strang71 has several times indicated his readiness to initiate discussions on Bulgaria with our delegation and I shall take the subject up with him at an early date and at the same time keep in touch with Gousev. I shall be guided by the Department’s 3469, April 29, 10 p.m.72 and the views to which it refers but in the meantime request urgently that the Department furnish me with such special studies and background material on Bulgaria as it feels it would be helpful for me to have in addition to material already furnished to my military adviser by the War Department.73

Winant
  1. Feodor Tarasovitch Gousev, Soviet representative on the European Advisory Commission; also Soviet Ambassador in the United Kingdom.↩
  2. Sir William Strang, Assistant Under Secretary of State in the British Foreign Office and representative on the European Advisory Commission.↩
  3. Not printed.↩
  4. Background material for the Ambassador’s information was transmitted in instruction 4057, May 11, 1944, not printed.↩