Office of the Historian

800.51W89 U.S.S.R./23: Telegram

The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, March 18, 1934—6 p.m.
[Received 6:10 p.m.]

20. Your 11, March 17, 1 p.m., just received. I shall communicate substance to Litvinov tomorrow. I saw him this morning in hospital. At first he categorically refused to consider anything but a cash loan. However, after long argument he agreed to refer entire matter to Stalin.

The 100,000,000 crown Swedish loan produced general conviction in Moscow that direct loans may now be expected by the Soviet Union from many nations and has stiffened greatly Soviet attitude.

What is the status of Johnson bill?6 Are ordinary commercial credits to Soviet Government now illegal?

Bullitt
  1. Introduced by Senator Hiram W. Johnson, of California.↩