761.93/7–745: Telegram
No. 198
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the President and the Secretary of State
1
priority
(Personal and top secret for the President and the Secretary of State from Harriman.)
I took the occasion of Soong[’]s lunch with me informally today to inform him of the President[’]s and your desire to be consulted before any arrangements were concluded based on the Yalta Agreement.2 He readily agreed. Reference White House message Number 310 Navy Number 061511.3 I also informed Molotov this afternoon. He asked whether you had in mind consultation at Berlin or before. I explained that if an understanding were reached in the next few days I assumed that you would wish to be informed at once. He said he would consult Stalin. …
- Sent by the United States Naval Attaché, Moscow, via Navy channels. Sent to Washington; relayed to Truman and Byrnes, then at sea, by the White House Map Room in telegram No. MR 57 of July 8.↩
- i. e., the agreement regarding entry of the Soviet Union into the war against Japan signed at Yalta on February 11, 1945, by Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill. For text, see Executive Agreement Series No. 498; 59 Stat. (2) 1823; Foreign Relations, The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945, p. 984.↩
- Not printed.↩