Office of the Historian

361.1121 Hrinkevich, Frank/27: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in the Soviet Union (Kirk)

Washington, August 3, 1938—2 p.m.

121. Your Nos. 178, July 6, 8 p.m., and 190, July 19, 5 p.m.45 Funds not available [to?] Department or Red Cross for repatriation Hrinkevich family.46

You are authorized provide Hrinkevich with emergency certificate of identity and registration gratis without personal appearance at Embassy. Certificate may be transmitted through Soviet channels for delivery deportee.

If necessary copies of photograph on present passport may be affixed to certificate, also to application for records.

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  1. Latter not printed.↩
  2. The necessary amount was loaned by the American Embassy Committee for the Relief of Indigent American Citizens, established in Moscow, November 12, 1935, by American members of the Embassy staff who, assisted by small contributions from visiting Americans, supplied the loan funds (361.1121 Hrinkevich, Frank/67).↩