800.51W89 U.S.S.R./133: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 28—3:15 p.m.]
333. Your No. 260, September 27, 5 p.m. Rubinin informed me today that Troyanovsky had cabled to him that you would instruct me to remain in Moscow for conversation with him. I replied that I had as yet received no such instruction and that neither you nor I could see any point in my talking with Troyanovsky provided the Soviet Government intended to adhere to its position of no settlement without a loan. Rubinin replied that Troyanovsky had informed his Government that you had told him that a loan of any amount was absolutely out of the question. I asked him if the Soviet Government had decided to alter its stand on this point. He said that the Soviet Government was excessively reluctant to relinquish its position and that Krestinski had become worried because we had had the conversation reported in my number 328.69 I told him that I had regarded the suggestions discussed as purely personal and not as government proposals.
Rubinin finally said that Troyanovsky would report to Litvinov and all the other leaders of the Soviet Government and that it was the hope of the Soviet Government that Litvinov, Troyanovsky and myself could sit down and reach at least an agreement in principle. He added that the Soviet Government desired either to reach a conclusion swiftly or to come to the decision that no settlement could be made.
Rubinin then informed me that Litvinov probably would arrive in Moscow on the 1st of October.