861.24/7–1245
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé of the Soviet Union (Novikov)
Sir: In my note of June 27, 1945 I indicated to you the conditions under which the United States Government was prepared to make available for shipment certain of the lend-lease requirements of the Soviet Government transmitted with your note of May 30, that had not been covered by my note of June 26.
I now wish to inform you that the United States Government has extended by one month the period mentioned in my note of June 27, and is now prepared to make available for shipment the items referred to in that note if they can be procured and loaded on board ship on [Page 1030] or before September 30, 1945, under the terms of our note of May 12, 1945 and in the light of available appropriations and competing demands for supplies in the changing military situation. In the case of items that cannot be loaded on board ship until after September 30, 1945, this Government will continue to accept requisitions on the basis indicated in the third paragraph of my note of June 27.91
Accept [etc.]
- The notes of June 27 and July 17 were based upon decisions made by the Joint Chiefs of Staff on June 23 and July 11, respectively.↩