811.20261/68: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Sweden (Wheeler)
1668. Your 3988, July 14, 5 p.m. You may inform Professor Lomonossoff his statement that he was denied for a whole year the credentials necessary to make it possible for him to leave the United States for Soviet Russia is contrary to fact. As soon as this Government learned that Professor Lomonossoff was unwilling to return via Vladivostok and, consequently, desired to return via Sweden, it went out of its way to ask for his passage through Sweden. You may telegraph the American Commissioner at Helsingfors that this Government would be glad if Lomonossoff were allowed transit through Finland to Russia. As Lomonossoff is returning to Russia in an unofficial capacity, the Department will not intervene for any secretary or other assistant to accompany him, except as suggested in my 1581, March 27, noon.
You may say to Professor Lomonossoff that Department is surprised at his reference to Tredwell who, while on official duty for this Government, was arrested and subsequently interned under guard for months.
[For papers relating to the continued imprisonment of Kalamatiano and his release in 1921 see Foreign Relations, 1920, volume III, and 1921, volume II.]