Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1941, General, The Soviet Union, Volume I

741.61/919: Telegram

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

Moscow, February 5, 1941—7 p.m.
[Received 7:52 p.m.]

227. My No. 5, January 2, 3 p.m. I have been informed by the British Ambassador that probably as a result of his policy of aloofness and recent remarks made by him to Vishinski⁸ regarding Molotov’s⁹ continued failure to receive him, he was summoned to the Kremlin by Molotov a few days ago.

At the interview Molotov not only had nothing to say to the Ambassador but in response to the latter’s efforts to initiate a general conversation on political subjects, Molotov pointedly declined to say anything.

Steinhardt

8. Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky, Assistant People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.
9. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.