800.014/6–2045
No. 734
The Soviet Ambassador
(
Gromyko
) to the
Secretary of State
[Translation]
secret
[
Babelsberg
,] July 20,
1945.
Dear Mr. Secretary: I am sending you herewith in accordance with your request expressed at the time of our conversation this morning, a copy of my letter and the letter of former Secretary of State Stettinius on the question of territorial trusteeships. We exchanged these letters while at San Francisco at the time of the United Nations Conference.
A. Gromyko
- i. e., under the category of “territories which may be detached from enemy states as a result of this war”. See The United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, California, April 25 to June 26, 1945: Selected Documents (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1946; Department of State publication No. 2490), p. 235.↩
- Enclosure 2 is a Russian translation of this paper, dated June 24. The text printed here is from the file copy of the English original (file No. 500. CC(PC)/9–2745).↩
- See document No. 1416, section i.↩