851.01/7–944: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 10—3:20 a.m.]
2490. For the President and the Secretary. One of my more reliable colleagues has reported to me that the French representative here told him that when he approached the Soviet Government asking for recognition of the French Committee as the Provisional Government of France he was informed that the Soviet Government would take no action vis-à-vis the French at variance with the Anglo-American position. Molotov has told me several times since I have been back that it was the Soviet policy to leave the initiative in French policy to the British and ourselves.