861.24/9–444: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 4—10:45 a.m.]
3292. For Acheson. Last night Vice Commissar Krutikov informed Spalding that schedule I as itemized in enclosure 4 to your letter dated August 14, 1944,23 was accepted without change. The desirability of including food items was stressed by Spalding but Krutikov replied that it was not desired to make any change in schedule I.
Krutikov expressed the hope that schedule II could now be agreed upon promptly. He urged the inclusion of the items, in enclosure 8 of the letter dated 14 August, for which financial assistance under the Lend-Lease Act has not been offered. He said that the materials to be produced by these plants were urgently needed for the war effort; that it is necessary for exerting the maximum war effort that construction materials be made available for providing housing in the devastated areas for such purposes as transportation facilities, operation of coal mines and the repair and construction of essential housing for workers in war industries.
When asked if there were any other questions regarding the completion of the amendment of the Lend-Lease Agreement, Krutikov stated that much of the difference would be met by the inclusion in schedule II of the items in enclosure 8. He mentioned however that some of the schedule II items were, as pointed out in the Protocol offerings, still under study, and that it was desirable that provision be [Page 1131] made to include these in the final schedule II. He made no mention of the potato chip and julienne machinery and it is believed that Soviet authorities would offer no objection to these being [omitted] from the schedule.
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