740.0011 EW (Peace)/8–2947: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Smith) to the Secretary of State
us urgent
2732. There follows Embassy translation Soviet note dated August 28, signed Vyshinski received late last night:
“In connection with your letter of August 18, 1947,1 I inform you that the government of the USSR has presented to the Presidium of [Page 565] the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for ratification the peace treaties with Italy, Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria signed in Paris February 10, 1947.
The Soviet Government proceeding from the requirement for the deposit of the instruments of ratification by the Soviet Union, USA and France in Moscow and Paris, as provided for by the corresponding peace treaties, on one and the same day, proposes to deposit the instruments of ratification mentioned in the course of the next 10 to 15 days.
Concurrently with the present note similar notes are being sent to the Embassies of Great Britain and France.”
Repeated London 314, Paris 315.
Department pass Rome 76, Sofia 13, Bucharest 13, Budapest 18.