711.94114 Supplies/12–2644: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 26—5:24 p.m.]
5002. ReDepts 2886, December 23, 8 p.m. It might be helpful if the Secretary were to hand to the Soviet Ambassador a note concerning the continued use of Nakhodka as a port of transshipment for prisoner of war supplies. We have written three notes to the Soviet Foreign Office on the subject, dated September 7, November 9 and November 25 respectively, and have had no reply to any of them. Oral inquiries have elicited only the statement that the question was under consideration. It seems evident that the Soviet Government is at least strongly reluctant to permit the continued use of Nakhodka.