840.50/8–2144: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 21—3 p.m.]
6756. For Berle, Hooker and Radius. See Embassy’s 6033, July 29, and Departments’s 6103 [6101], August 2. In response to inquiries by the Foreign Office concerning the reaction of the Soviet Government to the joint communication of the United States and United Kingdom concerning EITO, the British Ambassador in Moscow has replied that there was no reaction.
It is now proposed to transmit to the Soviet Government a communication drafted by us with the British, the communication to be presented jointly by our Ambassadors in Moscow, the text of which is contained in our telegram 6733, August 19. Will the Department inform us if it approves. If so we will inform the Foreign Office [Page 777] who will telegraph the communication to the British Ambassador in Moscow with instructions to present it to the Soviet Government jointly with Harriman. If the Department approves this procedure will you please instruct the Embassy in Moscow to concert with the British Ambassador in presenting this communication.
Radius is familiar with the proposed communication except for minor revision. The original draft has been revised in part by amendments on which we agreed before he left London and in part by British amendments.