Office of the Historian

861.00/11968: Telegram

The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Henderson) to the Secretary of State

Kuibyshev (Moscow), December 11, 1942—6 p.m.
[Received December 12—1:15 p.m.]

1081. The Moscow press of December 10 reports a ukase of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in accordance with which elections to the Supreme Soviet are postponed until December 1943 and the mandates of the present members are extended for another year. The last meeting of the Supreme Soviet was held in February 194170 and the present deferment of elections is the second since the outbreak of the Soviet-German War.

Henderson
  1. For correspondence concerning this VIII session of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union, see telegrams No. 367, February 25, 1941, and No. 380, February 26, 1941, from the Ambassador in the Soviet Union, Foreign Relations, 1941, vol. i, pp. 607 and 608, respectively.↩