Office of the Historian

The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to President Roosevelt 65

Moscow, 11 October 1944.

Personal for the President. Eden told me this afternoon that after a further satisfactory talk66 with Molotov they had come to an agreement that a meeting between Tito and Subasic67 should be arranged at an early date and a joint British, Soviet message which was now being drafted should be sent to them both, urging that they get together and work out their problems. Eden hopes that we will agree to participate in this message. As soon as I receive it I will send it to Secretary Hull for his consideration.

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As to Bulgaria and Hungary, Eden has agreed with Molotov that the Control Commission for these countries should be set up under the direction of the Soviet Commander as in Rumania during the period of hostilities against Germany but that hereafter the Control Commission would be made genuinely Tripartite with equal authority of each member but with Soviet Chairmanship. When I get the details I will inform Secretary Hull.68

  1. Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y. A paraphrase of this telegram is in the Department files under 741.6111/10–1244.↩
  2. See earlier telegram from the Ambassador to President Roosevelt, dated 11 October, p. 1009.↩
  3. Ivan Subasić was the Prime Minister of the Royal Yugoslav Government. With regard to his meeting with Tito at the end of October and early in November, see the report by Major Charles W. Thayer, of the Independent American Military Mission to Marshal Tito, November 4, from Belgrade, p. 1417.↩
  4. For further details on this subject, see telegrams 3911, October 12, from Moscow, 8651, October 12, from London, 3933, October 13, from Moscow, and 2437, October 14, to Moscow, vol. iii, pp. 449, 450, 903, and 906, respectively.↩