811.2361/39: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State (Stettinius) to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)
1040. It is suggested that the Embassy take up informally with the Soviet authorities the question of permission for a representative of the Embassy to visit as soon as convenient the internees mentioned in your 1567, October 8, 2 p.m.,77 and those referred to in your 1424, September 21, 11 p.m.78 In this connection it may be mentioned that it would be desirable to have an American doctor accompany the representative on his visit.
In case permission is granted for the visit the Department desires to have for transmittal to the War Department information along the lines mentioned in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Department’s 193, April 28 [May 2], 1942, noon [6 p.m.], to Kuibyshev.79
- Not printed, but see telegram No. 1506, October 1, 11 a.m., from the Chargé in the Soviet Union, and footnote 57, p. 704.↩
- Not printed, but see telegram No. 1224, August 30, from the Ambassador in the Soviet Union, p. 688. In telegram No. 1731, October 26, 6 a.m., the Ambassador reported that a note of October 23 from the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs stated that the crew members of the seven airplanes which had landed on the Kamchatka Peninsula on September 12, had been sent to Vrevskaya, a station on the railroad 52 kilometers southward from Tashkent, near the city of Yangi Yul, for permanent residence (811.2361/44).↩
- Foreign Relations, 1942, vol. iii, p. 550.↩