Office of the Historian

740.00119 FEAC/9–745: Telegram

The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
Moscow, September 7, 1945—5 p.m.
[Received September 7—1:28 p.m.]

3195. For the Acting Secretary. Molotov85 has written in reply to the note I sent him in accordance with Dept’s 1881, August 21, 8 p.m.86 that the Soviet Govt agreed to the proposal to establish a Far Eastern Advisory Commission.

Clark Kerr87 asked Molotov personally yesterday for the Soviet reaction to the British proposals regarding the functioning of the Control Council for Japan. Molotov answered that the Soviet Govt had not formulated its views as yet but that he expected the control [Page 713] of Japan to be one of the first matters considered by the meeting of the Foreign Secretaries.88

Repeated to London as 435 personal for Winant.89

Harriman
  1. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.↩
  2. See footnote 28, p. 683.↩
  3. British Ambassador in the Soviet Union.↩
  4. For first session of the Council of Foreign Ministers at London, September 11–October 2, see vol. ii, pp. 99 ff.↩
  5. John G. Winant, Ambassador in the United Kingdom.↩