891.00/12–345: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)

10474. Moscow’s telegram 610, Nov. 30, to London.89 You are authorized to bring at once to the attention of the British Govt the text of the Soviet reply to Ambassador Harriman’s note of Nov 24. You should stress the fact that this note is not being made public in Washington until we receive Soviet authorization, which is being requested,90 and that it should not be made public in UK until it has been published in the US or the Soviet Union. You might add that the American Govt would welcome any comments which the British Govt might care to make with regard to the various statements contained in the Soviet reply.

Byrnes
  1. Same as telegram 4015 from Moscow, p. 468.
  2. In telegram 2446, December 8, 1945, 6 p.m., to Moscow, not printed. Soviet authorization was conveyed to the Embassy in the Soviet Union by Mr. Molotov in a letter of December 6 and reported by Moscow in telegram 4082 the following day (891.00/12–745). The Soviet note of November 29 was released by the Department of State on December 8 and was printed in Department of State Bulletin, December 9, 1945, p. 934.