711.94114 Supplies/8–2644: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)
2093. Reference Embassy’s 3174, August 26. There is quoted below, the text of United States Government’s communication to the Japanese Government in regard to this matter. Please communicate text of message to Soviet Foreign Office together with an expression of this Government’s gratitude for the assistance which has been so graciously rendered by the Soviet Government in this matter, which is one of the deepest concern to the people of the United States.2
[Here follows the text of note sent in telegram 3006, August 31, to the Minister in Switzerland, printed in volume V, page 1049. The United States Government stated that it had been informed that the Soviet Government had sent to the Japanese Embassy in Moscow an aide-mémoire on August 25 confirming the willingness of the Soviet Government to allow a Japanese ship to come to Nakhodka to take away the relief supplies stored on Soviet territory awaiting transshipment to Japan. The United States Government also hoped that the Japanese Government would agree to the Soviet proposal that subsequent shipments of relief supplies should be made overland from Soviet territory to the border station Manchuriya, where such shipments would be received and taken onward by the Japanese.]
- See press release of September 1, 1944, on the status of relief supplies for Allied nationals interned in the Far East, Department of State Bulletin, September 3, 1944, p. 235.↩