File No. 861.51/405
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Great Britain (Laughlin)
2973. To Crosby from Rathbone, Treasury:
Embassy’s 3356, your 739.1 Russian Ambassador advised State and Treasury Departments that he had been urged repeatedly by Omsk government to forward to Vladivostok bank notes of approximately nominal value Rs. 84,000,000 which the Russian Ambassador [Page 92] had printed in the United States many months ago. War Trade Board granted export license but notes are to be consigned to War Trade Board representative and to be released only upon authority of State Department. In view of situation it was deemed advisable to permit shipment on conditions mentioned, disposition of notes to be later determined.
- Not printed.↩