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

611.6131/594: Telegram

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

Moscow, August 5, 1940—noon.
[Received August 5—9:35 a.m.]

962. In the course of the conversation described in the Embassy’s 961, August 5, the officials of the Commissariat for Foreign Trade told Dickerson that they hoped negotiations with respect to the matters excluded from the conversations with respect to commercial agreement and which were contained in documents (b) and of the Embassy’s 948 [937], July 31, might begin “in a friendly spirit” and at an early date.

Thurston