Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, The Near East and Africa, Volume VII

761.67/8–1246: Telegram

The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Durbrow) to the Secretary of State

secret

Moscow, August 12, 1946—3 p.m.
[Received August 12—1:05 p.m.]

3159. Understand that during his recent conversation with Masaryk⁵⁷ and other Czechs Stalin gratuitously and out of context stated three times that USSR had no intention of attacking Turkey.

Sent to Ankara as 43.

Durbrow

57. Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovak Minister for Foreign Affairs.