Message from Secretary of State James Byrnes to Averell Harriman

be E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) DECLASSIFIED NO. PARAPHONES necessing This wase. Dept of State letter, Aug. 9-23-75 10, 1972 NARS Date SEGRET November 23, 1945 U.S. URGENT noon AMEMBASSY, MOSCOW. 2382 FOR HARRIMAN FROM BYRNES Please deliver following message immediately to Molotov. QUOTE As you will recall it was decided at the Crimea Conference that the Foreign Secretaries of the Three Powers represented there would hold regular consultations, probably meeting every three or four months. That was in February. In May the Foreign Secretaries were able to consult together when the three of them were at San Francisco for the United Nations Conference. In July similar consultations took place at Berlin, when the heads of the three governments met there, and in September at London during the Conference of the Foreign Ministers. At Berlin it was agreed that the establishment of the Council of Foreign Ministers should be without prejudice to the Agreement of the Crimea Conference that there should be periodical consulta- tion between Foreign Secretaries of the Three Powers. It will soon be three months since we met in London on September 11. Therefore I suggest that the next meeting be held on Tuesday, December 11. Under