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The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to President Truman 4
1 have delivered this morning your message to Stalin, White House No. 280, June 2,5 regarding resumption of diplomatic relations with Finland, Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary.
After full discussion with Hopkins and others here I took the liberty of eliminating the phrase referring to Finland not having been in a state of war with the United States as we all felt strongly that this would cause a serious misunderstanding on the part of Stalin that we did not take sufficiently into account Finland’s action with Germany against Russia. As the deletion did not affect the substance of the cable I felt that you would not object to our making this change.