740.00119 EW/8–2344: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
[Received 3:30 p.m.]
3115. ReDeptel 1858, August 4, noon [midnight]. In a letter dated August 22 in reply to my letters of July 29 and August 6, Molotov states:
“On behalf of the Soviet Government I desire to inform you that it has no objection to the United States Government’s proposal to [Page 362] bring to the attention of the Bulgarian Government that the procedure in relation to conversations with the representatives of the Governments of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain which was agreed upon by us in February 1944 may still be used. In the belief, however, that at the present time it would be more appropriate if these conversations should take place not in Cairo but in Ankara, the Soviet Government hopes that this proposal will not meet objections on the part of the United States Government.”13
Repeated to Cairo and Ankara.
- The substance of this note was reported by circular telegram, August 24, midnight, to posts at Algiers, Caserta, Lisbon, London, Madrid, and Stockholm (740.00119EW/8–2444).↩