Office of the Historian

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

The Soviet Foreign Commissar (Molotov) to the Ambassador to the Soviet Union (Harriman)1

urgent
Moscow, 25 November 1943.

Personal and secret from the Peoples Commissar of Foreign Affairs VM Molotov to the American Ambassador Mr. Harriman.

I thank you for your message from Cairo.2 General Connolly may address himself through the Soviet Chargé d’Affaires in Teheran3 to General Arkadiev with respect to questions which interest him regarding coordination of measures. I hope to meet with you soon. Most cordial greetings.

  1. Delivered to Spalding at Moscow on November 26, 1943, and forwarded by him to Harriman at Cairo via Navy channels. Received at Cairo November 27.↩
  2. Telegram of November 22, 1943, ante, p. 374.↩
  3. Mikhail Alexeyevieh Maximov.↩