Office of the Historian

891.00/1787: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Iran (Dreyfus)

Washington, October 16, 1941—11 p.m.

114. Department’s No. 104, October 8, 1 p.m.59 The following telegram has been received from Moscow.

[Here follows text of telegram No. 1788, October 11, 1 p.m., from the Ambassador in the Soviet Union, printed on page 471.]

In spite of the Soviet reaction described in the foregoing telegram it is hoped that the representations of the Embassy in Moscow will have a salutary effect upon the Russians in so far as their political activities in Iran are concerned.

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Please keep the Department currently and fully informed of all ascertainable facts regarding conditions in the Russian-occupied Zone.

Hull
  1. See footnotes 53 and 54, pp. 467 and 469, respectively.↩