Arrest and detention of American citizens by the Soviet Government in contravention of the undertaking of November 16, 1933 ⁶

^6. For previous correspondence on the arrest and detention of American citizens in the Soviet Union, and arrangements for their return, see Foreign Relations, 1941, vol. i, pp. 926 ff. The text of the undertaking of November 16, 1933, is in the exchange of letters between President Roosevelt and People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs Litvinov, Foreign Relations, The Soviet Union, 1933–1939, pp. 33–34.