361.1121 Roszkowski, Mieczyslaw/14: Telegram

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

388. My 275, February 13, 3 [4] p.m.32 The Embassy is in receipt of a note from the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs to the effect that the “Mechislav Ignatevich Rozhkovski, who was born in 1920, has been sentenced by the public court of Lapski raion to 3 years of reformatory labor camp for unlawful keeping of arms.[”] The note further states that Rozhkovski “has a birth certificate attested to by the city clerk at the city of Fall River, Massachusetts, United States of America” but no other documents to confirm his American citizenship.

I am addressing a further note to the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs reasserting Rozhkovski’s American citizenship and requesting permission for a representative of the Embassy to interview him.

Steinhardt
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