Office of the Historian

859.01/167: Telegram

The Chargé in the United Kingdom (Bucknell) to the Secretary of State

London, May 20, 1944—5 p.m.
[Received 8:35 p.m.]

4079. Reference Embassy’s 3892, May 13, 2 p.m.30 A communication has been received from the Foreign Office stating that a telegram has now been received from Moscow to the effect that the British Ambassador sent the draft declaration on Denmark to M. Vyshinski31 on May 9. In accordance with an arrangement with the American Chargé, who wrote Vyshinski May 10, the British Ambassador’s letter [Page 537] made no mention of the prior clearance of the declaration with the King of Denmark.

As a result of further telegrams from the F.O. regarding proposed arrangements for publication, the British Ambassador has again written to M. Vyshinski stressing the urgency of the matter and he proposes to remind the Soviets again.

Repeated to Moscow.

Bucknell
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky, First Assistant People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.↩