861.00 Congress, Communist International, VII/92: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Bullitt)
204. For your information there is quoted below, as published in Washington Post, August 27, the text of a statement to the press, issued by Ambassador Troyanovsky on August 26:
“I have no intention of saying anything about the note of protest lodged by Ambassador Bullitt with our foreign office.
A satisfactory reply will be made in Moscow by my government. I wish to refer only to a campaign which has been conducted by some persons in this country against our government and against our form of government.
[Page 254]I recall the biblical injunction: ‘And why beholdest thou the mote which is in thy brother’s eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?’65
Anything said in Moscow by American citizens about the United States is very insignificant compared to continuous propaganda in the United States against the Soviet Union.
I have even seen suggestions that our government should somehow stop the activity of American organizations and American citizens in the United States.
It is obvious that my government will not interfere in the internal affairs of the United States in this or any other way.”
- Luke 6:41.↩