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711.62114A/4–1845: Telegram

The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Kennan) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, April 18, 1945—8 p.m.
[Received April 18—1:05 p.m.]

1244. We have received no reply to the Ambassador’s letter to Molotov dated April 15, which was sent in compliance with Department’s 864 April 14, noon.10

Under the circumstances I am informing Foreign Office that we are proceeding with the acceptance of the German proposal insofar as it relates to American prisoners of war.

[Kennan]
  1. Telegram 864 not printed, but see telegram 1486, April 14, to Paris, p. 712.↩