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

740.00116 European War 1939/425: Telegram

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

Washington, August 19, 1941.

988. Your 1458, August 9, indicates that Soviet Government intends to observe on the basis of reciprocity the Geneva Red Cross Convention of July 27, 1929. The Department would appreciate being informed whether the Soviet Union also intends to observe the prisoner of war convention signed at Geneva on the same date⁴⁸ or the convention on that subject signed on July 6, 1906.⁴⁹

Hull

48. For text, see Foreign Relations, 1929, vol. i, p. 336; or League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. cxviii, p. 343.
49. International Red Cross Convention, for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded of the Armies in the Field, signed at Geneva; for text, see Foreign Relations, 1906, pt. 2, p. 1559; or 35 Stat. 1885.