Office of the Historian

740.00112 European War 1939/10936: Telegram

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

Washington, June 12, 1944—7 p.m.

1479. Reference your 1920, May 29, 5 p.m., and 2003, June 5, noon,78 Department has not received any confirmation from Stockholm that Johnson and Griffis gave Madame Kollontay assurance quoted in Molotov’s note of May 28.79 As it appears that no general embargo will be placed on the export of ball bearings from Sweden for the time [Page 567] being the matter is not of immediate importance. However, the Legation at Stockholm has been requested to report regarding their conversation of May 17 with Madame Kollontay and further instructions will then be sent to the Embassy.

Hull
  1. Latter not printed.↩
  2. See telegram 1920, May 29. 5 p.m., p. 557.↩