Office of the Historian

093.612/49: Telegram

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

Washington, March 29, 1944—9 p.m.

739. Your 1046, March 25, midnight.27 The War Department has communicated to us its definite decision that General Connolly but not General Burns is eligible for Soviet decoration and is so informing General Deane. You are, therefore, authorized to inform the Soviet Government of the foregoing.28

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  1. Not printed.↩
  2. Ambassador Harriman informed the Foreign Commissariat of the eligibility of General Connolly for a Soviet decoration on March 31, 1944.↩