740.00119 E.W./9–1244: Telegram
The Ambassador in Turkey (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:43 p.m.]
1708. In conversation with the Russian Ambassador last night he remarked that he had received a telegram from Moscow to the effect that the Russian Government intended to express to the EAC its desire that the Bulgarian armistice negotiations be conducted in Moscow but that if this was not agreeable to the British and American Governments it was willing that the negotiations be conducted in Ankara. Vinogradov indicated that his Government was at a loss to understand [Page 414] the British insistence on conducting Bulgarian negotiations in Cairo.
Repeated to London as No. 49, Moscow and AmEmBalk.