Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1940, The British Commonwealth, The Soviet Union, The Near East and Africa, Volume III

711.61/753: Telegram

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

Moscow, September 25, 1940—5 p.m.
[Received September 26—1:09 a.m.]

1230. I have learned from a source which I regard as entirely reliable that instructions were recently issued to the Soviet press and radio authorities not to publish or broadcast statements hostile to the United States.

Steinhardt