741.6111/3: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
Moscow, July
12, 1941—10 p.m.
[Received July 12—9:45 p.m.]
[Received July 12—9:45 p.m.]
1346. The British Ambassador informed me this evening that he signed the Pact of Mutual Assistance and its supplementary provision precluding a separate peace with Germany this afternoon at 5 o’clock at the Kremlin.57 Stalin was present at the signature.
Steinhardt
- Agreement for Joint Action and Mutual Assistance; for text, see League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. cciv, p. 277; or Department of State Bulletin, September 27, 1941, p. 240.↩