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The British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Bevin) to the Soviet People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs (Molotov)5
It has been a great disappointment to me that after my friendly exchange of views with the Generalissimo we have been unable to come to a final agreement about the treatment of Iranian questions, and I am sure that my Government will be equally disappointed. However, I will report to them fully the exchange of views that has taken place and the amendments to my proposals which you suggested and I accepted.
I feel that it would not be right to keep the Iranian Government uninformed and I am therefore instructing Sir. R. Bullard to acquaint them with the course of our conversations in Moscow and the proposals which were submitted for their views.
I have informed Mr. Byrnes of the contents of this letter, who is advising his representative in Tehran in a similar sense.
- Copy transmitted to the Department as an enclosure to despatch 2337, January 3, 1946, from Moscow. According to the despatch, this letter, which was drafted by Bevin on the night of December 26, was shown to Byrnes, who agreed to the final paragraph.↩