Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1935, The Far East, Volume III

861.00 Congress, Communist International VII/14: Telegram

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

Moscow, July 4, 1935—9 a.m.
[Received 3:10 p.m.]

263. My 262, July 2.¹⁸ Cachin,¹⁹ leader of the French Communist Party, who has been conferring with Stalin and other leaders of the Soviet Government and the Comintern for the past 2 weeks, confirmed last night Fischer’s²⁰ statement that there would be a congress of the Third International in Moscow the end of this month. Cachin, who has been participating in the preliminary conferences of leaders of the Third International at Kunevo near Moscow, said to me that he would be in Moscow for the congress from July 15 to August 15.

Cachin stated that he had been informed that a few days ago the Japanese Government had demanded definitely that the Soviet Union should sell the northern half of Sakhalin. He added that in spite of all statements to the contrary the leaders of the Soviet Government had an intense fear of Japanese attack.

Bullitt

18. Foreign Relations, The Soviet Union, 1933–1939, p. 220.
19. Senator Marcel Cachin.
20. Louis Fischer, American writer.