Office of the Historian

740.00119 PW/8–1645: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland (Harrison)
Washington, August 16, 1945—6 p.m.

2539. Please convey to Mr. Stucki, of the Swiss Foreign Office, the appreciation of this Government for the efficient manner in which the Swiss Government has acted in transmitting the correspondence between the Japanese Government and the Government of the United States in connection with the Japanese surrender. I would like you to add also that we wish to have the Swiss Legation in Washington included in the expression of the appreciation for the Swiss Government’s prompt and helpful good offices in the transmission of these messages with respect to the surrender.5

Byrnes
  1. On August 23 the Secretary of State wrote the Swiss Chargé personally to thank him and his staff for their efficiency and devotion to duty (740.00119 EW/8–1645). On the same day an official Swiss communiqué stated that the American Minister in Bern had been directed to transmit an expression of appreciation for the speedy and efficient manner in which the Swiss Government and its Legation in Washington had transmitted messages on the occasion of the capitulation of Japan (740.00119 PW/9–545).↩