-2- #12, December 20, 9 p.m. (SECTION ONE) from Moscow.
 
for an agreement on frontiers at this time not only on the general inadvisability and impropriety of
such action by Great Britain independantly of its commonwealth associates but also on his
intention to be guided by the message transmitted to Churchill by the President through Hopkins
some months ago in which the hope was expressed that no commitments regarding post war
settlements should be reached without consultation with the United States. He said he had every
intention of holding to this course. Stalin's position was, Eden said, that the Soviet Government
would be quite prepared to acquiesce in and support any plans the British Government might with
respect to post war rearrangements such as, for example, the establishment of British bases in
Holland or elsewhere on the Atlantic Coast of Europe but that for its part it expects full
recognition of its own frontiers and security problems.
     With respect to the "Pact of Mutual Assistance," Eden stated that the arrangement
contemplated is merely the implrmentation of the existing war cooperation and that the scope of
any agreement of this nature would be confined to the war against Germany - and would not
envisage any eventual hostilities elsewhere