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The People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union ( Molotov ) to the Secretary of State 26
“You are perfectly right to remind me that at the Crimea Conference it was decided to arrange periodical consultations of Foreign Ministers of the Three Powers and that in Berlin this decision was confirmed. I agree that the next meeting of the three Ministers would be held in Moscow. It would be desirable to exchange, right now, opinions on those questions which will be put on agenda of the conference, which, however, should not prevent from putting, by general consent, some other questions on the agenda.
In view of the fact that a preliminary exchange of opinions concerning the agenda of the conference and preparations for the conference require some time I suggest that the conference of the three [Page 581] Ministers be fixed for the second part of December, in any case, not earlier than on December 17–19.
- Transmitted to the Secretary of State by Soviet Chargé Novikov under cover of the following note dated November 25: “I have the honor to transmit the following message from People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR V. Molotov to you just received from Moscow.” A penciled notation on the document indicates receipt at 9:40 p.m. on November 25.↩