Editorial Note
On April 2, the Embassy in London reported information from the British Foreign Office on the conversations of March 24 between Mr. Bevin and Generalissimo Stalin at Moscow. Concerning their discussions on Iran, the Embassy cited Mr. Bevin as stating “that the propaganda that Britain opposed an oil concession to Russia was without foundation. The British Government, he explained, had no objection to an oil concession being made to Russia so long as Iranian independence was not affected. No comment of significance was made to this by Stalin.” (telegram 2020, 741.61/4–247). The British record of the conversation of March 24 is printed in volume II, page 278.