Office of the Historian

800.51W89 U.S.S.R./140: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Bullitt)

Washington, October 8, 1934—4 p.m.

273. Your 340,71 341,72 342 and 344. Believe you are wise in adhering to your plan to leave Moscow Wednesday.73

Department already informed of suggestion discussed in your 340 and unnecessary for you to express any opinion to Litvinoff.

Without making any statement to Litvinoff that diplomatic relations might under certain circumstances be severed, it is highly desirable to give him the impression that in case of violation of pledges he made when here and failure to agree to debt settlement on such reasonable terms as we have proposed, the relations between the two governments will inevitably be less close and friendly than anticipated and the reason for our Government doing many things contemplated may disappear. I have in mind the fact that our present annual outlay to Moscow is considerable, and that we are thinking of costly construction work and the establishment of additional consulates. Hope you will have a very satisfactory trip.

Hull
  1. Foreign Relations, 1934, vol. i, p. 154.↩
  2. Ibid, p. 516.↩
  3. October 10.↩