Office of the Historian

861.415/10–2949: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Embassy in the Soviet Union 1

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Washington, October 29, 1949—11 a. m.

803. Send Shvernik2 fol through appropriate channels Nov 7 “On this national holiday of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics I have been instructed by my Government to inform you that the people of the United States send best wishes to the people of the Soviet Union.”3

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  1. There is a notation at the bottom of the page which reads: “This telegram has been cleared with the White House.”↩
  2. Nikolay Mikhailovich Shvernik was Chairman (President) of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union.↩
  3. In regard to the nature of the greeting sent in the previous year, see telegram 1285 to Moscow on November 1, and footnote 2, Foreign Relations, 1948, vol. iv, p. 929.↩