Office of the Historian

859.01/158: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)

Washington, May 11, 1944—4 p.m.

3772. Your 3714, May 6, 7 p.m. The Department approves of all of the desiderata contained in the Foreign Office instructions to the British Ambassador at Moscow except paragraph no. 3. We consider that no advantage can be gained by not informing the Soviets of our prior action, while certain embarrassment might be caused should they subsequently learn of it from other source. We have already cabled the Moscow Embassy to this effect27 and desire that you similarly inform the Foreign Office.

The proposed hour for the release of the Declaration is agreeable to us. We would like to have 24 hours notice of the release day.

Hull
  1. Telegram 1168, May 11, 3 p.m., not printed.↩