Office of the Historian

861.424/11–250: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Embassy in the Soviet Union

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Washington, November 2, 1950—noon.

293. Send Shvernik1 fol through appropriate channels Nov 6 “I have been instructed to convey through you to the peoples of the Sov Union the best wishes of the people of the United States on the occasion of the national holiday of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.”2

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  1. Nikolay Mikhailovich Shvernik was the Chairman (President) of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union.↩
  2. Ambassador Kirk had remarked in telegram 956 from Moscow on November 2 that he considered “sending such letter quite consistent with current situation and that its omission would definitely be remarked.” (861.424/11–250) For comparison with the greeting sent in the previous year on the anniversary of the Bolshevik (October) Revolution, see telegram 803 to Moscow on October 29, 1949, Foreign Relations, 1949, vol. v, p. 669. In telegram 1067 from Moscow on November 21, 1950, the Ambassador transmitted the text of an acknowledgment of thanks for the present greetings from Deputy Foreign Minister Gromyko dated November 17.↩