500.CC/3–2545: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 23—4:30 p.m.]
881. I have received a letter from Molotov dated March 23 stating that the Soviet Government agreed to the procedure set forth in the Department’s 582, March 13, 10 p.m.,23 concerning the preparation of the statute of the International Court of Justice. Molotov states that N. V. Novikov, Counselor of the Soviet Embassy in Washington with rank of minister has been appointed the Soviet representative on the commission of expert jurists and that Professors S. A. Golunsky and S. B. Krylov have been appointed as his advisers.
Sent to Department as 881, repeated to London as 134, Chungking as 16.