851.01/3805: Telegram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Hamilton) to the Secretary of State
[Received 6:42 p.m.]
1754. See Embassy’s 1666, May 12, 10 a.m. and previous.86 The following is a paraphrased translation of a note from Molotov dated May 16.
“The Soviet Government, having studied the draft directive87 to General Eisenhower in the event of the occupation of French territory contained in your letters of April 11 and May 10, has reached the conclusion that the requirements of the military situation which will [Page 688] be created as the result of an invasion of the territory of France by Allied forces are met by this directive.
I shall be grateful if you will transmit the above to the United States Government.”