Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1945, Europe, Volume V

861.24/6–1245: Telegram

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

Moscow, June 12, 1945.
[Received June 12—2:34 p.m.]

2029. Today’s press publishes prominently on front page Stalin’s and Molotov’s messages to President and Secretary⁷⁷ expressing gratitude and felicitations of Soviet people to American people and Government on third anniversary of Soviet-American Lend-Lease agreement.

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77. For Marshal Stalin’s message of June 11, see text printed in Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the U.S.S.R., Correspondence between the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R. and the Presidents of the U.S.A. and the Prime Ministers of Great Britain during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 (Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1957), vol. ii, doc. 336, p. 244. For President Truman’s reply of June 14, see ibid., doc. 341, p. 247, or the extract in Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), vol. i, p. 96. For exchange of messages between Mr. Molotov and Mr. Stettinius on June 11 and 15, see Department of State Bulletin, June 24, 1945, p. 1162.