811.20261/29: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Sweden (Morris)
1581. Your 3755, March 21, 5 p.m. You may make urgent representations to the Swedish Foreign Office to allow safe transit through Sweden for Professor Lomonossoff. If reply is favorable [Page 180] Department will arrange at once for the safe departure of Professor Lomonossoff from the United States upon learning that Messrs. Kalamatiano, Houston and Albers are safely in Finland. Department is requesting Consul at Helsingfors to obtain assurances from Finnish authorities for safe transit of Professor Lomonossoff through Finland.
This Government has never offered any obstacle to the departure of Professor Lomonossoff from this country but believes that in intervening with other governments for safe transit of an individual who appears to be objectionable to them, it is doing more than is requisite in order to secure the release of American citizens whose detention in Russia by the Bolshevik authorities has been arbitrary and also has made an extremely unfavorable impression upon public opinion in this country.