Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1921, Volume II

861.00/8702: Telegram

The Ambassador in Great Britain ( Harvey ) to the Secretary of State

London , June 10, 1921—5 p.m.
[Received 9:20 p.m.]

471. Today’s newspapers publish an exchange of notes between Tchitcherin and Lord Curzon dated June 1 and June 9 respectively. The Soviet note transmitted through Krassin³³ which the Foreign Office informs me has been handed in identic form also to the French and Italian Foreign Offices declares that the Bolshevik regime at Vladivostok was overthrown under the protection of the Japanese whom it charges with a desire to conquer Siberia, that the French are assisting the Japanese plans and that Great Britain has exhibited “hostile activity” toward the Soviet Government.

Lord Curzon’s reply returns to Krassin the Soviet note as unacceptable and declines to enter into any correspondence concerning these “entirely baseless charges.”

Full text by pouch.³⁴

Harvey

33. L. B. Krassin, leading member of the Soviet delegation which concluded a trade agreement with Great Britain Mar. 16, 1921; he remained in Great Britain as Soviet trade representative.
34. Not printed.