Office of the Historian

800.51W89 U.S.S.R./19: Telegram

The Chargé in France (Marriner) to the Acting Secretary of State

Paris, December 27, 1933—11 a.m.
[Received 1:20 p.m.50]

578. For the Acting Secretary and Assistant Secretary Moore only from Bullitt. Soviet Commercial Attaché, Paris, handed me last night list obligations in reichsmarks of the S.S.S.R.51 falling due in the year [Page 55] 1934. He did not give me list of obligations in dollars falling due in Germany for the same period but promised to telegraph to Berlin at once for it. To cable this list in confidential code is impossible without breaking the code since the Soviet Government has the list and Marriner and I have agreed that the best method of transmission is the following:

[Here follows instruction as to method of transmitting the information to the Department.52]

  • [Bullitt]
  • Marriner
  1. Telegram in two sections.↩
  2. Soyuz SotsiaUsticheskikh Sovietskikh Respublik.↩
  3. The information was duly sent in telegram No. 579, December 28, 11 a.m. (800.51W89 U.S.S.R./20).↩