Office of the Historian

711.61/786: Telegram

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

Moscow, January 20, 1941—8 p.m.
[Received 10:20 p.m.]

116. In the course of a conversation Saturday night76 with Mikoyan,77 he expressed his disappointment in a good-natured manner with the failure of the conversations in Washington to make further progress than they had, citing as an example that “only 42% of the machine tools purchased and paid for by the Soviet Union in the United States had thus far been released.”

Steinhardt
  1. January 18.↩
  2. Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, People’s Commissar for Foreign Trade of the Soviet Union.↩