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740.019 Control (Austria)/1–2845: Telegram

The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State

London, January 28, 1945—9 p.m.
[Received January 28—4:43 p.m.]

985. Cornea38 164. I am glad to have in reserve the suggestion contained in Department’s 566, January 24, midnight that the Russian objection to Nazi origin of present boundaries of Gau Vienna might be overcome by a slight enlargement of the present territory of the Gau. The Russians have not yet replied to the substance of our argument and Gousev probably took my memorandum (my 460, January 13, 6 p.m.)39 to Moscow. While they have not said so, I believe the Russian delegation prefers the pre-1938 smaller boundaries of Land Vienna because they leave a larger area in the presumptive zone of Soviet occupation.

Winant
  1. Series designation for telegrams from London dealing with affairs in the European Advisory Commission.↩
  2. Reference is to the memorandum of January 9, p. 4; telegram 460 not printed, but see footnote 24, p. 4.↩