125.977/27: Telegram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Thurston) to the Secretary of State
[Received 12:24 p.m.]
995. Department’s 377, July 18, 1 [6] p.m. On July 19 I called on Assistant Commissar Lozovski78 and made a statement to him [Page 461] along the lines indicated in the instruction under acknowledgement. I left with him an aide-mémoire paraphrasing the quoted section of your telegram.
On August 5 Dickerson79 inquired of Valkov,80 chief of the American Section, whether he had any observations to convey concerning the attitude of the Soviet Government with respect to the opening of an American consular office at Vladivostok. Valkov replied that he would inquire of Lozovski and endeavor to answer Dickerson’s inquiry in the course of the day. As no word has been received from the Commissariat I took the occasion of my visit to Valkov this morning to inquire again whether Soviet Government had reached any decision in the matter. Valkov replied that the matter was under consideration but that decision had been postponed in view of the activities connected with the current sessions of the Supreme Soviet81 but that a statement on the subject might be expected in the near future.
- Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky, Assistant People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.↩
- Charles E. Dickerson, Jr., Consul and First Secretary of Embassy in the Soviet Union.↩
- Vasily Alexeyevich Valkov, Chief of the American Section of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.↩
- The VII Session of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union was held in Moscow August 1–7, 1940.↩