File No. 861.00/1351
The Consul General at Moscow ( Summers) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 23, 9.55 a.m.]
278. The Russkoe Slovo publishes following interview with Trotsky regarding alliance of the United States with the Soviet government:
Such an alliance is impossible. The Russia of the Soviets cannot align itself by determinate engagements with capitalistic America, for this would be a betrayal of its [omission]. It is possible that America is seeking such a rapprochement with us, driven in so doing by its antagonism towards Japan, but in any case there can be no question of an alliance by us of any nature with a bourgeois nation.
The Department can easily realize the danger of such statements to our present friendly relations with Japan.