859.01/145c: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)
2787. Your 2668, April 1, 6 p.m.17 With the exception of certain minor drafting changes which are being communicated to the British Embassy here for transmission to the Foreign Office, the Department approves of the texts of the Declaration on Denmark and the accompanying message to the King.
Provided the Foreign Office concurs in these suggested changes, we understand that it will forward both texts by telegram to the [Page 532] British Ambassador at Moscow who will furnish copies of them to Mr. Harriman and will associate himself with the latter in extending an invitation to the Soviet authorities to participate in the statement. We are informing Moscow to this effect and should appreciate it if the Foreign Office could issue similar instructions to Clark Kerr.
- Not printed; it reported that draft texts of Declaration and accompanying message to King Christian were being cabled by the Foreign Office to the British Embassy in Washington with instructions to submit them to the Department for consideration (859.01/143).↩