661.119/452: Telegram
The Chargé in Sweden (Wheeler) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 16, 10 a.m.]
4027. The Swedish Foreign Office issues the following communiqué:
“Some time ago the Foreign Office took steps to ascertain specifically the attitude of the American and British authorities with regard to shipments to Russia. From American sources information has been supplied that obstacles are still maintained to shipments to Soviet Russia and that the rumor of the arrival of American food ships in Petrograd is without foundation. From England no definite answer has yet been received but information received indicates that all traffic with Russia is in fact still barred and that in addition the mines laid make it practically impossible for any ship to travel by the Petrograd route.”