97. Telegram From the Embassy in the Soviet Union to the Department of State1
1033. Following is translation text aide-mémoire handed me by Deputy Minister Zorin December 4:
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR has already several times drawn the attention of the Embassy of the USA in Moscow to the wholly inadmissible situation which has been created around the mission of the USSR to the UN in New York as a result of the hooligan-like actions with regard to the mission and its staff of elements hostile to the Soviet Union.
“In this connection the Ministry has pointed out that the failure of the American authorities to adopt effective measures to create normal conditions for the work of the mission can lead to undesirable consequences for the Embassy of the USA in so far as the publication in the Soviet press of reports about hostile actions in New York against the mission of the USSR to the UN, which has not happened up to this time, may cause the rightful indignation of the Soviet public and a corresponding attitude of the pubic of Moscow toward the Embassy of the United States.
[Page 258]“Notwithstanding the assurances of the Embassy that the American authorities will adopt all necessary measures to prevent acts disturbing order (poryadka) and of lawlessness with regard to the Mission of the USSR at the UN, hostile demonstrations at the building of the mission are continuing.
“On October 23, the building of the Mission was twice subjected to picketing during which participants in the picketing committed hooligan-like pranks (vykhodki) in relation to the staff of the mission.
“On November 7 a noisy demonstration hostile toward the Soviet Union, lasting three hours, was again carried out at the building of the mission. The hooligans assembled at the building of the mission crudely insulted the guests who came to the reception at the mission and screamed obscene curses at them. The participants of the mob tried to beat up a member of the mission Barulin.2 Stones, bottles with paint, and other objects were thrown at the windows and walls of the building of the mission.
“In drawing the attention of the Embassy to the inadmissibility of such a situation which is evidence of the clear violation of the diplomatic immunity of the Mission of the USSR in New York with the connivance (popustitelstvo) of the authorities of the USA, the Government of the USSR expects that the Government of the USA will adopt the necessary measures for not permitting hostile demonstrations in the future at the building of the Mission of the USSR to the UN so as to guarantee normal conditions for the work of the Soviet Mission and its staff.”