761.67/10–2945: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union ( Harriman ) to the Secretary of State
[Received 10:10 p.m.]
3700. Today I called informally on Molotov to thank him for the arrangements he had made for my trip to Sochi. In connection with the rumors about Stalin’s ill health which he had asked me to comment on publicly, I took the occasion to speak of other rumors including those regarding war between the Soviet Union and Turkey. He commented that no one could believe such a report, it was unthinkable that there should be war between the Soviet Union and Turkey and he was surprised that people would print such a rumor.
I brought this subject up with Molotov because of War Department’s [Page 1264] X78357, October 24 from G–281 to Military Attaché Paris, London and Moscow and Ankara’s message of October 2782 on this subject.
Repeated for the Ambassador to Ankara as nr 69, to London as 546 and Paris as 399.