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Telegram from George Kennan to Secrertary of State Edward Stettinius
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Telegram from George Kennan to Secrertary of State Edward Stettinius
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DEPARTMENT
INCOMING
DIVISION OF
OF
CENTRAL SERVICES
STATE
TELEGRAM
TELEGRAPH SECTION
-
DCG-1659
PLAIN
Moscow via War
Dated May 9, 1945
REC'd 7:45 a.m.
of State,
Washington.
PRIORITY
1520, Ninth
For over an hour now the Embassy building has been
besieged by a largE and Enthusiastic crowd of demonstrators
shouting hurrahs and greetings to the American Allies, WE
Estimate that there are at least two or three thousand
pEople in the crowd, which shows no signs of dispersing.
There are unceasing demonstrations of enthusiam, the
greatest of which was Envoked when a Russian officer
climbed onto a ledge of the building where an American
noncommissionEd officer was standing, pumped the Americans
hand and kissed him in real Russian fashion. The
d emonstrators have no banners referring to United States,
and the demonstration SEEMS to have been Entirely spontaneous
American and British military personnel who have
3.
ventured out among the crowds, including one British
RECORDS
SERVICE"
general, have beEn merclessly tossed in the air. All in
all, there can be no question of the sentiments of the
Russian man in the streEt today toward the western Allies,
BB
KENNAN