740.00119 Control (Rumania)/9–545: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
Moscow, September
5, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received 4:35 p.m.]
[Received 4:35 p.m.]
3174. In connection with my immediately preceding telegram51 concerning question of revision of statutes of Balkan Control Commissions, I feel Department should give careful consideration to Barnes telegram of Aug 18, noon52 and particularly to reference in that message to “most important questions”. This account bears all the marks of verisimilitude and we should go on assumption that Russians will indeed stretch the elasticity of this phrase to the limit.
Sent Department 3174; repeated Sofia 99.
Harriman