Executive Agreement Series No. 215
611.6131/622
The Ambassador of the Soviet Union ( Umansky ) to the Acting Secretary of State 89
Excellency: In accordance with the conversations which have taken place, I have the honor to confirm on behalf of my Government the agreement which has been reached between the Governments of our respective countries that the agreement regarding commercial relations between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America recorded in the exchange of notes on August 4, 1937 between the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics90 and the Ambassador of the United States of America at Moscow,91 which came into force on August 6, 1937, on the date of approval thereof by the Council of People’s Commissars of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and proclamation thereof by the President of the United States of America and which was renewed on August 5, 1938,92 August 2, 1939,93 and August 6, 194094 shall continue in force until August 6, 1942.
The present agreement shall be approved by the Council of People’s Commissars of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics95 and proclaimed by the President of the United States of America.96
Accept [etc.]
- The same note was sent, mutatis mutandis, on the same date by the Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador of the Soviet Union. This exchange of notes constituted an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union, printed in Department of State Executive Agreement Series No. 215, and 55 Stat. 1316. For text of press release issued by the Department on August 5, 1941, see Department of State Bulletin, August 9, 1941, p. 115.↩
- At that time, Maxim Maximovich Litvinov.↩
- At that time, Joseph E. Davies.↩
- See Foreign Relations, The Soviet Union, 1933–1939, pp. 601 ff.↩
- See ibid., pp. 809 ff.↩
- See Foreign Relations, 1940, vol. iii, pp. 441 ff.↩
- This approval was given on August 4, 1941.↩
- This was done August 6, 1941.↩