811.711/1611: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt)
Washington, June 14,
1941—8 p.m.
801. Your 1060, May 29, 12 noon.
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- You may address a note to the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs acknowledging the receipt of the communication under reference and stating that you have referred the communication to your Government for its consideration.
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- Should the occasion arise, you may state informally to the appropriate Soviet authorities that you have been informed by your Government that it does not consider that the second Soviet note calls for reply since it contains nothing that was not set forth in the Soviet Ambassador’s note of March 10 and the Commissariat’s original note of (date)74 to which replies have already been made.
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- You may desire orally to reiterate the substance of paragraph 4 of the Department’s telegram no. 586 of April 26, 4 p.m., and to emphasize that since the action taken by the American postal authorities [Page 759] in refusing to make delivery of mail matter entering the United States from abroad is based upon the character and content of the mail matter and not upon the country of origin, any charges of discrimination in regard to the Soviet Union are therefore unfounded.
Hull