Roosevelt Papers: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the President1
Personal and secret for the President from Harriman.
I delivered personally your message concerning Turkey2 to Molotov in the form of a letter. Molotov expressed the highest satisfaction at its contents and offered no objection whatsoever to the proviso which it contained. He proposed that your agreement as expressed in my letter be attached to the protocol concerning Turkey which he and Eden had signed, the text of which I have already cabled you,3 and that these two documents be made a part of the most secret separate military record of the Conference. His anxiety to have this agreement part of the action of the Conference is I believe due to the fact that he is personally under some criticism by the Soviet military authorities for not obtaining action on this matter at the Conference. I see no objection to his proposal and ask that you authorize me to put it into effect. He discussed the above with the British Ambassador who is cabling Eden for similar authorization.
- Sent to Washington by the United States Naval Attaché, Moscow, via Navy channels, and forwarded by the White House Map Room to Roosevelt, who was at his camp, known as “Shangri-la”, in the Catoctin Mountains, Maryland, on November 7, 1943. A copy was sent to the Department of State for its information.↩
- See Roosevelt’s telegram 407, November 4, 1943, to Churchill, ante, p. 151, footnote 1.↩
- See ante, p. 148.↩