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The Ambassador of the Soviet Union ( Troyanovsky ) to the Secretary of State

The Ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics presents his compliments to the Honorable the Secretary of State and, referring to conversations concerning suits to recover assets of, or amounts due to, nationalized former Russian corporations, to which the Government of the United States is or may become a party, has the honor to state that all assets of, or amounts due to, the Soviet State within the United States, its territories or possessions, whether recoverable on the basis of legislation or acts concerning nationalization of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or of any constituent Republic of the Union, constituted assets of, or amounts due to, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and were assigned to the United States by the communications exchanged between the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the President of the United States, dated November 16, 1933.