661.6231/245: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 28—10:31 a.m.]
825. In a Tass despatch the press today reports the arrival in Berlin of the Soviet economic mission headed by Tevosyan. I understand that this delegation is composed of no less than 60 persons representing various branches of Soviet industry for the purpose of placing orders for German machinery.
A number of specialists of the German economic mission in Moscow have returned to Berlin following the conclusion of an agreement for the delivery by the Soviet Union to Germany of a million tons of barley, oats and other fodder. Delivery is to begin within 10 days and to be completed within 2 months. This agreement will not be announced, I understand, until termination of the work of the German economic delegation here, and the conclusion of further agreements relating to the delivery of other Soviet raw materials to Germany.
Repeated to Berlin.