Office of the Historian

740.0011 E.W./3–345: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes)

Washington, March 3, 1945—6 p.m.

55. The Department expects to see with respect to the former Axis satellite countries full implementation of the Crimea Declaration on Liberated Europe, announcing mutual agreement among the three principal Allies to concert their policies in helping these former enemy states to solve their pressing political and economic problems by democratic means and, where in their judgment conditions require, to assist these states to form interim governmental authorities broadly representative of the democratic elements.

Procedures for the application of this agreement will be determined by direct consultation among the three Governments. We believe that meanwhile, although we would hope to see an immediate reflection of the Yalta spirit in the work of the Commissions, our representatives should not seek to reinforce their positions on any basis other than the respective armistice documents and, in the case of Hungary and Rumania, the agreed statutes, particularly since the respective Soviet chairmen can scarcely be expected materially to alter existing working arrangements except in the light of new instructions from Moscow.

Sent to Bucharest, Moscow, Sofia and Caserta.89

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  1. As Nos. 102, 480, 55, and 186, respectively.↩