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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Memorandum of Conversation
DATE: April 20, 1945
DECLASSIFIED
SUBJECT:
E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (2)
Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972
BYNLTUC NARS 7-23-77
PARTICIPANTS: The President, the Secretary of State, Mr. Grew,
Ambassador Harriman, and Mr. Bohlen.
COPIES TO:
GPO 1-1493
After the Secretary presented Ambassador Harriman to the
President the latter said that he wished to thank the Ambassador
for the great service he had done for him in connection with
Molotov's coming to the San Francisco Conference. He said that
he deeply appreciated this and he wished to congratulate the
Ambassador and to express the hope that he would return to Moscow
and continue his excellent work. Ambassador Harriman said that
he had felt that that was the most appropriate suggestion he
could make when Marshal Stalin had indicated his desire to make
some gesture. He said that he had not felt it possible to do any-
thing about the Polish question since Stalin was merely speaking
of a gesture.
At the President's request Ambassador Harriman then made a
brief report on his opinion of the present problems facing the
United States in relation to the Soviet Union. He said that he
thought the Soviet Union had two policies which they thought they
could successfully pursue at the same time-one, the policy of
cooperation with the United States and Great Britain, and the
other, the extension of Soviet control over neighboring states
through unilateral action. He said that he thought our
generosity and desire to cooperate was being misinterpreted in
Moscow by certain elements around Stalin as an indication that
the
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