Office of the Historian

701.6111/1053: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt)

Washington, November 1, 1941—5 p.m.

1175. You are requested to inform the Foreign Office that the appointment of Maxim Litvinov as Soviet Ambassador to Washington is most agreeable to this Government.24

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  1. Under Secretary of State Welles noted on this telegram that it was “approved by the President by telephone Nov. 1, 10:15 a.m.” The contents of the telegram were given to Assistant People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyshinsky on November 4, 1941.↩