300.115(39) City of Flint/5: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
Moscow, October
24, 1939—5 p.m.
[Received October 24—12:36 p.m.]
[Received October 24—12:36 p.m.]
793. My 789, October 24, 10 [9] a.m. I saw Potemkin at 3 o’clock this afternoon. He stated that he had no other information than appeared in the Tass despatch quoted in my telegram under reference but that in anticipation of my call he had requested the Soviet naval authorities at Murmansk to let him have a full report as quickly as possible and that he would advise me as soon as all of the facts were in his possession.
Steinhardt