857H.01/104

The Minister in Latvia ( MacMurray ) to the Secretary of State 94

No. 1025

Sir: I have the honor to report that the Collection of Laws and Orders of the U.S.S.R., in its No. 17, Part II, of November 29, 1935, contains as item 138, the Treaty Concerning the Archipelago of Spitsbergen, together with additions and an annex, signed at Paris, February 9, 1920, with a note that the adhesion of the U.S.S.R. to this Treaty was approved by the Central Executive Committee of the U.S.S.R. February 27, 1935, and came into effect May 7, 1935.

Respectfully yours,

J. V. A. MacMurray
  1. Similar information was sent to the Department by the Chargé in the Soviet Union in his despatch No. 1232, January 2, 1936; received January 20.