861.00 Congress, Communist International, VII/52: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union ( Bullitt ) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 19—6:42 a.m.]
359. My 336, August 6, 4 p.m. Charles, British Counsellor, called at the Chancery this morning and inquired with regard to the attitude of the American Government towards the Comintern Congress. He was informed that the Embassy had not received any instructions in the matter and expected none until after the close of the Congress.
Charles stated that his Government had been much annoyed by Dimitrov’s speech and had called in the Soviet Chargé d’Affaires55 for a severe “wigging”. His Ambassador56 had now been instructed to repeat the performance with Krestinski and to state that pronouncements such as those made by Dimitrov were incompatible with Soviet protestations that the Soviet Government desired the development of friendly relations with the British Government.