196.6/1451: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Standley) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 28—7:52 a.m.]
719. My 330 from Moscow, August 23, 8 p.m. In the absence of Vyshinski who I am informed is ill following an operation for appendicitis which was accompanied by complications, I saw Lozovski49 yesterday afternoon and discussed with him the gratuities referred to in the Department’s 384, August 4, 4 p.m.
I set forth the point of view therein contained and left with Lozovski ah aide-mémoire asking that the gratuities be discontinued and at the same time renewing my earlier request that rubles at the diplomatic rate of exchange be made available to the crews of American vessels operating to North Russian ports. Reference is made in this connection to my 479, June 3, 11 a.m. Lozovski promised to examine the matter and let me know the decision of the Soviet Government in due course.
- Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky, Assistant People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs.↩