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611.6131/595: Telegram

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

Moscow , August 6, 1940—9 p.m.
[Received August 6—3 p.m.]

976. Exchange of notes extending commercial agreement to August 6, 1941, including notes on Soviet coal, took place at 8 o’clock Moscow time tonight. Details follow in a separate telegram.71

Thurston

[For text of the agreement effected by exchange of notes signed August 6, 1940, and effective August 6, 1940, see Department of State Executive Agreement Series No. 179, or 54 Stat. (pt. 2) 2366. For text of press release issued by the Department August 7, see Department of State Bulletin, August 10, 1940, page 105.]

  1. Telegram No. 982, August 7, 11 a.m., from the Chargé in the Soviet Union, p. 458.↩