711.61/861a: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in the Soviet Union (Henderson)
521. According to a Tass dispatch dated October 12 a series of lectures and reports on the United States and a number of exhibits were arranged in Soviet cities in honor of the 450th anniversary of the discovery of America.
Prominence is given in the dispatch to an exhibit of books on America in the Lenin State Library at Moscow reportedly including sections on the history of American-Russian friendship and on contemporary Soviet-American relations.
Please report on the foregoing with particular reference to any significant indications of the Soviet propaganda line regarding the United States revealed in the exhibit and in press or other treatment of Columbus Day.