Office of the Historian

740.00119 European War 1939/2495: Telegram

The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, April 18, 1944—noon.
[Received 5:20 p.m.]

1332. For the President and the Secretary. In my talk with Molotov last evening he told me that the Rumanian troops were still fighting the Red Army and those who surrendered had done so only after battle. In the Crimea their resistance was particularly stubborn as the Rumanian divisions there consisted of better trained troops. He stated further that the Rumanian Government had not changed in any way its policy of cooperation with Germany.

Harriman