Cordell Hull: "Welcome news."
Britain (a highly placed official): "It ought to dispel the fears of elderly maiden aunts everywhere." The Labor Party's orthodox trade unionists said it would not affect the opposition to a request from the British Communist Party for affiliation.
Germany: 1) "The whole affair is nothing but a gigantic bluff of Allied wirepullers"; 2) "Stalin has sold Communism for Allied friendship."
Argentina: Viewed with suspicion.
Sweden: "A further proof of the Soviet Union's determination to fight to a victorious end on the side of the Allies against Fascist dictatorships" (from Torsten Kreuger's strongly anti-Communist Aftonbladet).
Italy: No mention.
Spain (Madrid's Informaciones): "We...
