740.0011 Moscow/70: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 27—11:45 a.m.]
1741. Delam81 29. For the Acting Secretary of State from the Secretary.82 Reference Embassy’s 1724, October 25, noon,83 and Delam’s 22 of October 25.84 The presentation of the text of the proposed Soviet-Czechoslovak treaty before the Conference and the plan for its signature here at a very early date may give rise to the supposition that this project has been endorsed by the three Governments participating in the Conference.
If the announcement of this threat [treaty] in the United States should lead to queries concerning the attitude of the American Government, the Department may wish to reply that it is a matter of common knowledge that the negotiations between the Soviet and [Page 718] Czechoslovak Governments have been in course for many months. It might also be mentioned that the text of the treaty had been agreed to before the present Three Power Meeting. There has therefore been no occasion for an expression of any views on the part of this Government.
I think, however, that any comment should be made entirely on the basis of Departmental view without reference to communications from me on the subject. [Hull.]
- The designation assigned to a series of telegrams sent by the American delegation to the Moscow Conference to the Department of State.↩
- Secretary of State Cordell Hull was attending the Conference of the three Foreign Ministers in Moscow.↩
- Not printed.↩
- Not printed, but see the summary of the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Moscow Conference on October 24, 1943, 3 p.m., vol. i, p. 624.↩