Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1945, European Advisory Commission, Austria, Germany, Volume III

740.00119 Control (Austria)/4–945: Telegram

The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, April 9, 1945—midnight.
[Received—10:15 p.m.]

1104. In reply to my question this afternoon Vyshinski¹⁷ informed me that his Government had issued instructions to Gousev with respect to Austrian zones of occupation. He briefly outlined to me these instructions which he said were basically in accord with the British proposals. The Soviet Government had suggested however, some amendments to the Soviet zone so that it would include Burgenland and a part of upper Austria. With respect to the occupation of Vienna, his Government had proposed that “pre-Hitlerite Vienna” and not “the greater Vienna” be occupied by the four Allies.

Repeated to London as 150.

Harriman

17. Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky, First Deputy People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.