Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1944, The British Commonwealth and Europe, Volume III

740.00119 EW/12–3044: Telegram

The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, December 30, 1944—3 p.m.
[Received December 30—9:12 a.m.]

5060. Molotov has sent me a draft of the additional article referred to in point 6 of my 5034, December 27, 9 p.m. It reads as follows:

“Article XIX. The Allied Governments consider the decision of the Vienna Arbitration Commission of November 2, 1938⁹⁶ and also the Vienna award of August 30, 1940⁹⁷ as null and void.”

I would appreciate instructions on this point.

Harriman

96. Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1918–1945, series D, vol. iv, p. 125.
97. Ibid., vol. x, pp. 581–587. See also telegrams 3826, August 30, 1940, from Berlin, and 509, September 6, 1940, from Bucharest, Foreign Relations, 1940, vol. i, pp. 501 and 505, respectively.