760C.61/2142: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 11—12:45 a.m.]
76. For the President and the Secretary. Without advance notice Molotov5 called me to the Kremlin shortly after midnight. After keeping me waiting for some 15 minutes he received me and apologized for the delay by saying that the paper he was giving me had just been [Page 1218] completed. Molotov said he hoped the statement, which related to Poland, would be found to conform to the spirit of the conversations at Tehran6 with President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill and added “as everyone else is talking about Poland it would be wrong for us to remain silent”. The text is to be released by Tass7 this morning as an authorized statement. The Embassy’s translation is contained in my next following telegram.
- Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs and First Assistant Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union.↩
- For documentation on the conferences between President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Churchill, and Marshal Stalin, Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union, with their advisers, at Tehran, November 28–December 1, 1943, see Foreign Relations, The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943.↩
- Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union, official communication organization of the Soviet Government.↩