Office of the Historian

741.61/457: Telegram

The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Wiley) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, April 2, 1935—6 p.m.
[Received April 2—6:14 a.m.]

134. My 129, April 1, 3 p.m.99 Litvinov stated to me today that as a result of Eden’s visit the Soviet Union and Great Britain would henceforth collaborate in all spheres of international affairs, that reference in joint communiqué recognizing that the integrity and prosperity of each was to the advantage of the other gave evidence that there would henceforth be no conflict between Soviet and British policy in the several countries. He specifically cited Japan in this connection. Litvinov will probably go to Geneva but will not go to Stresa.

Soviet press jubilant over results of Eden visit.1

Wiley
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. The Ambassador in the Soviet Union, in his despatch No. 539, April 22, reported the British Ambassador’s statement that he and Mr. Eden “had at last been able to disabuse the Soviet Government of any idea that Great Britain was urging Japan to attack the Soviet Union” and also “that Sinkiang had never been mentioned in any conversation that Eden had had in Moscow.” (741.61/476)↩