740.00119 Council/12–2645
Memorandum of Conversation Between the United States and Soviet Delegations, Conference of Foreign Ministers, at the Kremlin, Moscow, December 15, 1945, noon
| Present: | The Secretary |
| Ambassador Harriman | |
| Mr. Bohlen | |
| Mr. Molotov | |
| Mr. Vyshinsky | |
| Mr. Pavlov |
The visit was a courtesy call by the Secretary on Mr. Molotov following his arrival and consisted almost entirely of an exchange of amenities.
The Secretary did say that he expected the next meeting of Foreign Ministers to take place in Washington next March or April to which Molotov offered no objection. In regard to the present meeting The Secretary said he intended to insist that Mr. Molotov be Chairman of the meeting.
Mr. Molotov suggested that the first regular meeting take place December 16 at 5:00 p.m. at Spiridonovka.80
No points on the agenda were discussed, but Mr. Molotov said that Mr. Bevin had raised objection to the inclusion of the Soviet suggestion [Page 609] concerning Greece and had proposed that economic questions affecting Europe be discussed. Mr. Molotov said he felt that the economic questions were too complicated for this meeting and could be dealt with by the Social and Economic Council of the world organization. He said the Soviet Government had no new questions to add to the agenda but that up to the present it was not known what the British attitude would be towards the points suggested by the United States and the Soviet Union beyond the indications from Mr. Bevin in regard to Greece and the economic questions.
- Residence of the Soviet Foreign Commissariat.↩