Office of the Historian

093.612/57: Telegram

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

Moscow, April 17, 1944.
[Received April 17—11:15 a.m.]

1317. Moscow papers for April 15 announce the awarding of the Order of Suvorov Second Class to General Connolly and of various other Soviet orders to 33 American officers and men of the Persian Gulf Command “for the successful fulfillment of the instructions of the American Command in the Persian Gulf in transporting munitions supplies and foodstuffs to the Soviet Union which have provided great assistance to the Red Army in the struggle with the German Fascist invaders.”41

Harriman
  1. In a letter of April 16 from People’s Commissar of Foreign Trade Mikoyan to Ambassador Harriman, the final paragraph stated that these decorations “express the friendship, which is growing stronger, of our great countries in the struggle against the common enemy for the better future of freedom-loving people.” (093.612/76)↩