The People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union ( Molotov ) to the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ( Bevin )14
[
London
, undated.]
I am glad that the letter which I sent you on 20th September has given you satisfaction. I would like to tell you once again that in the case of the Soviet Government the question of withdrawing troops from Iran did not in general constitute a special problem, inasmuch as there is a treaty which makes provision for it. I would ask you to bear in mind that the Soviet Government attach exceptional importance to the strict fulfilment of obligations undertaken.
- Reprinted from Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons, 5th series, vol. 414, col. 247.↩