Office of the Historian

740.00119 European War 1939/2524: Telegram

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

Moscow, April 25, 1944—6 p.m.
[Received April 26—3:12 a.m.]

1432. In reply to my inquiry as to any developments in the Soviet-Rumanian situation Molotov informed me that Maniu’s proposal made by Prince Stirbey to break away from Antonescu and to form a new government in Soviet-occupied Rumania, although acceptable to the Soviet Government, was not considered as having been made seriously. He said that there were yet no different [definite?] indications that Maniu would follow such a course.

Harriman