Office of the Historian

761.9411/74: Telegram

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

Moscow, April 10, 1941—1 p.m.
[Received 2:27 p.m.]

726. The Chinese Ambassador43 told me last night that he had seen Lozovski44 “several times recently” and that the latter had emphasized that if Japan wished a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union “it would be very difficult [”] for the Soviet Union to refuse.

Steinhardt
  1. Shao Li-tzu.↩
  2. Soviet Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs.↩