840.70/8–2245: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 22—1:55 p.m.]
3006. Emtel 1923, June 6. FonOff replied under date August 18 to British notes dated August 5 and 13 regarding Soviet participation in August 22 Conference on European Inland Transport to effect that [Page 1409] as promised at Berlin Conference USSR intends to take part57 but considers that since Soviet delegates did not participate in discussion of text of agreement signed May 8 text should be reexamined by present Conference with a view to working out text of an agreement on the central organization for inland European transport. USSR also regards British proposal of associating ex-enemy states in work of Conference as complicated and not practically expedient believing that simultaneous representation on American, Soviet and British delegations of expert consultants of this or that ex-enemy country may seriously complicate work of Conference. USSR considers it expedient to maintain arrangements hitherto in force.
To Dept as 3006, rptd London as 419.
- See Report by the Subcommittee on Cooperation in Solving Immediate European Economic Problems, July 25, 1945, submitted to the Ninth Meeting of the Foreign Ministers, July 27, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), vol. ii, p. 1161; see also chapter XIX, Protocol of Proceedings, ibid., p. 1497.↩