767.68119/6–1845: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 18—2:40 p.m.]
6149. Embtel 6019, June 14. FonOff official today in remarking on Soviet demands on Turkey said Molotov had told Turkish Ambassador in Moscow that there was a fourth demand which might make the other three unnecessary. FonOff said that “Molotov was coy” about this. Turks believe this fourth demand might be the rupture of the Anglo-Turkish alliance (which the FonOff considers highly unlikely) or a “modification” of the Turkish political regime so that the Turkish Govt might be “reorientated” as have been the Govts of Rumania and Bulgaria.
In this connection Peterson wired that he recently invited to dinner at the Embassy the Acting Secretary General of the FonOff and Dr. Aras, former ForMin and Ambassador in London. The Acting Secretary Gen took Peterson aside after dinner and requested that he not be invited again on the same occasion as Aras, describing the latter as “this well known Soviet agent”.
Repeated to Ankara as 56 and to Moscow as 211, sent to Dept as 6149.
[For documentation concerning this subject during the period June 18–August 2, 1945, leading up to and including the Conference of Berlin between the Heads of Government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, July 16–August 2, see Foreign Relations, The Conference of Berlin (The Potsdam Conference), 1945, volume I, pages 1010–1054, and ibid., volume II, pages 256–258, 266–267, 301–305, 312–314, 320, 365–367, 372–373, 387n , 391, 393, 453, 551, 606, 1420–1440, 1496–1497, 1573, and 1600.]