Union of Soviet Socialist Republics:
Contents
- Reports on developments of significance concerning Soviet relations with
other countries, especially with the United States1
(Documents 593-666)
- Difficulties affecting relations between the United States and the Soviet
Union, and discussions concerning their alleviation41
(Documents 667-725)
- The beginnings of assistance from the United States for the Soviet Union
after its invasion by Germany (Documents 726-816)
- Difficulties from Soviet authorities interfering with the proper
functioning of the American Embassy in Moscow45
(Documents 817-872)
- Trade relations between the United States and the Soviet Union; renewal of
commercial agreement by exchange of notes signed August 2, 194167
(Documents 873-885)
- Arrest and detention of American citizens in the Soviet Union and of
Soviet citizens in the United States, and arrangements for return to their
own countries98
(Documents 886-950)
- Interest of the United States in protection of church property and in
freedom of religious worship in the Soviet Union (Documents 951-961)
- Efforts by the United States to persuade the Soviet Union to adhere to the
Geneva Convention of 1929 relative to the treatment of prisoners of
war (Documents 962-980)
- Continued from
Foreign Relations, 1940, vol.iii, pp. 179– 244.↩ - Continued from
Foreign Relations, 1940, vol.iii, pp. 244– 441.↩ - For previous correspondence concerning these difficulties, see
Foreign Relations, The Soviet Union, 1933–1939, pp. 837 ff.↩ - For previous correspondence, see
Foreign Relations, 1940, vol.iii, pp. 441 ff. For text of the exchange of notes signed on August 6, 1940, see Department of State Executive Agreement Series No. 179, or 54 Stat. 2366.↩ - For previous correspondence on
the arrest and detention of American citizens by the Soviet Government
in contravention of the undertaking of November 16, 1933, see
Foreign Relations, The Soviet Union, 1933–1939, pp. 491– 503, 708– 726, and 904– 918. On the arrest in the United States of a Soviet citizen charged with violation of the espionage laws, seeibid., pp. 726– 730, and 918– 926. The text of the undertaking of November 16, 1933, is in an exchange of letters between President Roosevelt and People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinov,ibid., pp. 33– 34. For the Espionage Act, approved June 15, 1917, see 40 Stat. 217.↩