File No. 893.51/418.

The American Ambassador to Russia to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Extract.—Paraphrase.]

The Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs told me today that the Russian and Japanese Governments are exchanging views on the [Page 97] currency loan to China which might result in presenting observations relating to the use of the loan and the guaranty for it insofar as they related to China.

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