Potsdam Conference (TERMINAL)

U.S. State Department (July 19, 1945)

871.6363/7-1945: Telegram

The Chargé in the Soviet Union to the Acting Secretary of State

Moscow, July 19, 1945 — midnight
Secret
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Letter went forward to Foreign Office in conformity with Department’s 1621, July 16, warning that exclusive Soviet Rumanian trade pact and monopolistic agreements on oil would cause serious concern in United States Government and might compel United States Government to reconsider present favorable oil policy toward USSR. (To Department, repeated Bucharest 94, London 372). Harriman has been informed.

KENNAN