Office of the Historian

893.24/1334: Telegram

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

Kuibyshev, May 22, 1942—6 p.m.
[Received May 22—4:10 p.m.]

432. Department’s 217, May 9, 8 [7] p.m. I endeavored to impress upon Vyshinski4 yesterday the hope of my Government that the Soviet Government would do everything possible to facilitate the movement of supplies to China through the Soviet Union. Vyshinski stated that he was not fully acquainted with all the details of the problem but would willingly inform the interested Soviet authorities of the concern of the American Government in the matter.

Standley
  1. Soviet Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs.↩