711.61/3436/8
President Roosevelt to the Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs (Litvinov)
My Dear Mr. Litvinov: I am happy to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of November 16, 1933, in which you state that:
[Here follows quotation of statement made by Mr. Litvinov in his note printed supra.]
I am glad, to have these undertakings by your Government and I shall be pleased to notify your Government in each case of any amount realized by the Government of the United States from the release and assignment to it of the amounts admitted to be due, or that may be found to be due, the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and of the amount that may be found to be due on the claim of the Russian Volunteer Fleet.
I am [etc.]