740.00119 European War/9–1144: Telegram
The Ambassador in Turkey (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 13—2:08 a.m.]
1702. The Bulgarian Minister informed me today that the new Bulgarian Cabinet is composed of four Communists, four Agrarians and four members of the former “Zveno group”. He expressed concern at what he described as the “extreme leftist tendencies” of all 12 members of the new Cabinet.
Balabanoff said that he had received no recent information concerning the armistice negotiations or where they were to be held. He expressed the hope that the United States and Britain would resist any Russian pressure to transfer the negotiations to Moscow. He said that Mushanoff had been instructed to return to Ankara but that these orders had been countermanded at the last moment and he had been told to keep in touch with the American and British representatives in Cairo in order to avoid the appearance of any breakdown in the negotiations.
Repeated to Moscow and to Cairo for AmEmBalk for MacVeagh.