File No. 661.119/65
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan ( Morris )
Your February 6, 1 p.m. No embargo. On the contrary Department has informed Russian authorities here that all supplies other than munitions will be permitted to go forward. Two ships on Pacific now loading with railway materials, another taking considerable supplies of shoes for railway employees. Shipments also being made via Kola, Murmansk. Department has advised British and French Governments of its position, namely, that we feel for the present it is important an impression should not be created in the minds of the Russian people that they are being abandoned by the Allies or the United States Government. Owing to limited amount of tonnage available for Russia we believe that even in case of railway materials the amount forwarded can not by any possibility be a military factor.