Office of the Historian

761.6211/71: Telegram

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

Moscow, August 23, 1939—4 p.m.
[Received August 23—10:30 a.m.]

461. Ribbentrop arrived promptly at 1:00 by air and was met at the airport on behalf of the Soviet Government by Potemkin, the Commander of the Moscow garrison, and other Soviet officials. He was to see Molotov at 3 o’clock this afternoon.

Steinhardt