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Moscow Embassy Files: 500 Conference of Foreign Ministers

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)85

Moscow, December 26, 1945.

Dear Mr. Harriman: In the discussion as to the appointment of the Commission to advise the King of Rumania on the reorganization of Government, it was agreed by the Three Foreign Ministers that instructions should be issued to their representatives on the Commission that in recommending the two representatives of the National Peasant and Liberal Parties the names of Maniu, Bratianu and Lupu should not be included.86

You are hereby instructed to comply with this agreement.

Very truly yours,

James F. Byrnes
  1. A copy of this letter was apparently transmitted to Foreign Commissar Molotov on December 26.↩
  2. For the record of the discussion referred to, see the United States delegation minutes of the Informal Meeting, December 25, 5:15 p.m., p. 781.↩