740.00119 Control (Rumania)/3–1945
The British Embassy to the Department of State
Aide-Mémoire
With reference to their memorandum of March 17th31 expressing His Majesty’s Government’s agreement that any consultations regarding Roumania should be held in Moscow. His Majesty’s Embassy have now been instructed to inform the Department of State that His Majesty’s Government also agree that His Majesty’s Ambassador in Moscow should support his United States colleague in any representations which the latter may make to the Soviet Government on the basis of the Department of State’s instructions referred to in the first paragraph of the British Embassy’s memorandum under reference.32 Instructions are being sent to Sir A. Clark Kerr accordingly.
In informing the United States Government of the foregoing, His Majesty’s Embassy have been instructed to say that, in the event of the Soviet Government’s declining to participate in the proposed tripartite discussions, His Majesty’s Government would greatly appreciate the opportunity of discussing the whole situation with the United States Government before a decision is taken as to their next step.
- Not printed.↩
- The first paragraph of the British Embassy’s memorandum summarized the contents of a note of March 13 from Ambassador Winant to Foreign Secretary Eden in which Winant communicated the contents of the instructions contained in telegram 569, March 12, to Moscow, repeated to London as 1902, p. 510.↩