740.00119 EW/12–1544: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
4838. ReEmbs 4311, November 10, 5 p.m. I received late last evening a letter from Dekanozov82 dated December 12 in reply to Kennan’s letter of November 10 in which he expressed readiness to proceed with the preliminary Hungarian armistice discussions. Dekanozov states in this letter that the German coup d’état in Hungary has retarded the withdrawal of that country from the war and that, in the opinion of the Soviet Government, this makes the present time inappropriate to discuss the Hungarian armistice terms.
- Vladimir Georgiyevich Dekanozov, Assistant People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.↩