711.61/11–746
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Acting Secretary of State
| Participants: | The President |
| The Acting Secretary, Mr. Acheson | |
| Mr. Molotov, Foreign Minister of the USSR63 | |
| Mr. Novikov, Soviet Ambassador | |
| Mr. Pavlov (Mr. Molotov’s interpreter) | |
| Mr. Stevens, Division of Eastern European Affairs |
Mr. Molotov paid a courtesy visit on the President at 4 o’clock this afternoon. After inquiring about the President’s health and expressing appreciation for American hospitality to the members of the United Nations Assembly and the Council of Foreign Ministers, he said that any objective observer would have to admit that Americans were hospitable and kindhearted people.
Mr. Molotov then referred to the momentous events of the past few days and expressed the hope that the results of the elections would not adversely affect the good relations between the two countries. The President replied that there would be no change as a result of the elections insofar as our good relations with our neighbors were concerned.
The President paid tribute to Russian hospitality at the Potsdam Conference, to which Mr. Molotov replied that Potsdam had been a joint undertaking in which all the participants had cooperated. The President then asked Mr. Molotov to tell Generalissimo Stalin that he would still be pleased to welcome him on a visit to the United States. Mr. Molotov replied that this was a wish which we shared in common.
Prior to calling on the President Mr. Molotov made a courtesy visit on Mr. Acheson, during which the conversation related principally to Mr. Hull and his historical interests and to the arrangements made in New York to accommodate the Soviet delegation.
- Mr. Molotov was in the United States attending the sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations, October 23–December 16, and the Third Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers, November 4–December 11, 1946, being held at New York.↩