Office of the Historian

740.00116 European War/12–544

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador of the Soviet Union (Gromyko)

Washington, December 18, 1944.

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of December 5, 194479 in which you ask for this Government’s opinion regarding the suggestion of the Bulgarian Government that certain persons arrested by the Soviet authorities in Bulgaria80 be turned over to it for trial.

This Government agrees with the Soviet Government in perceiving no objection to the suggestion.

Accept [etc.]

Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. For names of those arrested, see note from the British Embassy, December 19, infra.↩