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May 24,midnight, from London
 
midnight, from London.
 
Molotov, so I called him on the telephone, he
 
called me back at six are look tonight
 
(Sunday), inviting me to go to the Russian Embassy
 
tomorrow at four o'clock. I called him back and
 
told him that I thought it was unnecessary that
 
we meet sooner than that, and he made an appointment
 
for me at ten o'clock tonight at his Embassy.
 
Both Molotov and he were most courteous and cordial.
 
I explained to them that we were trying to cooperate
 
with them, that we were both interested in a second front, and that within the last week the 
 
Department had informed me that we were arranging to discuss
 
commercial policy with them (Department's 2152, May 14, 7 p.m.) and that we were trying to work 
 
out a program in the relief field that went a considsrable distance toward meeting the suggestions in 
 
Maisky's memorandum to me on that subject, but that both you and Mr. Hull were set against 
 
introducing frontier problems at this time and that that was true of other friends who were doing all 
 
that could be done to support our common war effort. I also told them very frankly that I did the best 
 
I could to presnt the Russian point of view to you and to Mr. Hull,