811.20261/21: Telegram
The Minister in Sweden (Morris) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received February 25, 3:29 a.m.]
3666. Referring to my 3652, February 21. A representative of the Danish Red Cross, Mr. Hermod Larsen, chief associate to the Director of the Danish Red Cross at Moscow, called on me this morning with a memorandum from the Commissary of Foreign Affairs Tchitcherin, asking me to inquire from my government their view on exchanging the American prisoners Xenophon Kalamatiano and George Albers, now in prison in Moscow, against members of the Russian Soviets now under arrest and detention in Vladivostok by the American authorities. Mr. Larsen states that these prisoners are in tolerable health and conditions now are that there is no immediate danger of execution for Kalamatiano, although he is under sentence of death. If you wish to make a reply to Tchitcherin’s proposal, cable me and I will see Mr. Larsen who expects to return to Russia shortly.