Office of the Historian

340.1115A/913: Telegram

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

Moscow, June 16, 1940.
[Received June 17—1 a.m.]

683. Embassy recommends that future purchases of transportation for Americans being repatriated from Soviet Union and Soviet occupied Poland include rail transportation from place of residence in Soviet Union, or from Lwow if evacuee resident in Soviet occupied Poland, to Vladivostok and rail steamer transportation thence to United States west coast port via Japan. Transportation should be prepaid in United States if possible.

[Here follow details as to services and costs.]

Thurston