740.00119 E.W. 1939/8–2344: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 23—10:47 a.m.]
3114. ReEmb 3026, August 17, 2 p.m. The following is a paraphrase translation of a letter from Vyshinski, dated August 21:
“The receipt is acknowledged of your letter of August 17 advising me of the peace proposals made to American representatives in Istanbul by the Rumanian representatives Professor Giurescu and Colonel Teodorescu and also of the negative position with respect to these proposals which, in view of their unreality, the American Government has taken.
I have brought this information to the attention of the Soviet Government as well as the substance of the proposed reply of the American Government to the Rumanian authorities.”