Office of the Historian

861.00/11916: Telegram

The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Thurston) to the Secretary of State

Kuibyshev (Moscow), November 15, 1941—5 p.m.
[Received November 16—8:21 a.m.]

1929. The Soviet press reports that Litvinov has been appointed an Assistant People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs and that Oumanski has been appointed a member of the Collegium of the [Page 658] People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs. Oumanski has also been made director of Tass.

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