840.51 Frozen Credits/481: Telegram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Thurston) to the Secretary of State
[Received 6 p.m.]
1049. After conveying the notification reported in the Embassy’s 1048, August 21, 4 p.m., Valkov stated to Ward that acting upon instructions from Molotov he was returning my note of August 12 (section 3 of the Department’s 423, August 9, 6 p.m.) for the reason that the note is unacceptable to the Soviet Government since it employs the term “occupation by the Red Army” with respect to areas which recently have been incorporated into the Soviet Union pursuant to the unanimous election of the peoples of those areas.26 He thereupon handed to Ward the note in question.
It is needless for me to say that my note followed verbatim the text furnished by the Department; that text is accurate and factually unobjectionable.
- For a similar exhibition of Soviet sensitivity, see telegram No. 503, May 8, 6 p.m., from the Chargé in the Soviet Union, and the Department’s reply, telegram No. 271, May 11, 3 p.m., vol. iii, pp. 199 and 201, respectively.↩