123 Kirk, Alan G.: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Embassy in the Soviet Union
top secret
Washington, August 1,
1949—2 p. m.
544. Instr going forward next day or two in reply your 1813 July 21. In this connection tele whether top secret Embtel 1053 Apr 5, 1948 [Page 636] still retained in Emb files.1 This is report of Stalin-Smith conversation and if not available will be sent you immed.
Acheson
- Telegram 1053 reported the interview on April 4, 1946, that took place between Stalin and Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith, Foreign Relations, 1946, vol. vi, pp. 732–736. The Embassy answered in telegram 1912 from Moscow on August 2, 1949, that it did possess a copy of the telegram.↩