740.00119 Control (Rumania)/6–745: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 7—10:25 a.m.]
1945. It seems reasonably evident to us that Soviet Govt is for reasons of policy opposed to resumption of normal direct communications between US and Rumania and Bulgaria. We therefore expect [Page 553] slight if any results from written representations made today to Molotov in conformity with Dept’s 1209 June 2.
We made the point that with termination of German war there seemed to be no valid reason for continued severance of these communications. In our opinion this is a point worth having on record.
If we continue to encounter blank wall after this, further platonic expressions of views will, it seems to us, only serve to weaken our position. In such circumstances unless some suitable quid pro quo could be found there would seem to be little for us to do but to apprise the American public of the lack of communications and the reasons therefor.6
We have discussed this problem with Brit Emb and they hold substantially same views.
To Dept 1945 rptd London 254.
- Telegram 2352, June 30, 6 p.m., from Moscow reported receipt of a communication from Vyshinsky stating that the Soviet representative on the Allied Control Commission for Rumania had been instructed to take steps for the resumption of U.S.-Rumanian radio and postal communications for correspondence (740.00119 Control (Rumania)/6–3045). Earlier, telegram 427, June 22, 6 p.m., from Bucharest, had reported that on June 21 General Schuyler had been informed by General Susaikov that the Allied Control Commission had been instructed by Moscow to advise the Rumanian Government that communications could be opened with the United States and Great Britain; the A.C.C. had advised the Rumanian Postal and Telegraphic Administration to that effect (740.00119–Control (Rumania)/6–2245).↩