Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1943, The British Commonwealth, Eastern Europe, the Far East, Volume III

740.00114 Pacific War/138: Telegram

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

Kuibyshev (Moscow), February 6, 1943—8 p.m.
[Received February 7—3:50 p.m.]

118. Department’s 41, January 18. I outlined to Vyshinski⁷⁰ on February 5 the considerations set forth in the Department’s telegram and left with him an aide-mémoire on the question. Vyshinski promised to bring the proposal immediately to the attention of his Government. I requested an expeditious reply, stressing the desperate situation of the United Nations nationals in Japanese custody.

Standley

70. Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky, First Assistant People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.