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300.115(39) City of Flint/73: Telegram

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

Moscow , October 30, 1939—3 p.m.
[Received October 30—11:43 a.m.]

833. The press today contains no reference of [to] the City of Flint or to the Department’s statement issued in connection therewith. The [Page 1006] Department’s telegram containing the text of the statement issued on the 28th, which was apparently sent from Washington on the evening of that date, was not delivered to the Embassy until 3:30 on the morning of the 30th, having been held up by the Soviet telegraph authorities.92

Steinhardt
  1. This statement was sent to the Embassy in telegram No. 217, October 29, 1939, 3:35 p.m. For the text of the statement, see Department of State, Bulletin, vol. i, p. 431. For other press releases regarding the City of Flint, issued by the Department of State, see ibid., pp. 429–432, 457–458, and 556.↩