Office of the Historian

740.00119 E.W. 1939/8–2644: Telegram

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

Washington, August 26, 1944—6 p.m.

2043. The Department is agreeable to the proposal that discussions between the Rumanian delegates and representatives of the principal Allies be conducted in Moscow and our Embassies in Cairo and Ankara are being so informed.

The Department also agrees to the Soviet proposal that the armistice conditions should be based upon those submitted to Rumania in April with the three additional points mentioned by Molotov.

We have no knowledge of the “new armistice conditions” proposed by the British but you will receive instructions as soon as they are known.

Sent to Moscow, repeated to Ankara and Cairo.89

Hull
  1. As Nos. 746 and 72, respectively.↩