Executive Agreement Series No. 265
611.6131/646a
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador of the Soviet Union (Litvinov)95
Excellency: In accordance with the conversations which have taken place, I have the honor to confirm on behalf of my Government the agreement which has been reached between the Governments of our respective countries that the agreement regarding commercial relations between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics recorded in the exchange of notes of August 4, 1937, which came into force on August 6, 1937, and which was renewed on August 5, 1938,96 August 2, 1939,97 August 6, 1940,98 and August 2, 194199 shall remain in force until August 6, 1943. It shall continue in force thereafter, unless superseded by a more comprehensive commercial, agreement, subject to termination on six months’ written notice by either Government.
The present agreement shall be proclaimed by the President of the United States of America1 and approved by the Council of People’s Commissars of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.2
Accept [etc.]
- The same note, mutatis mutandis, was sent at the same time to the Secretary of State by the Soviet Ambassador (611.6131/647). This exchange of notes constituted an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union, printed in Department of State Executive Agreement Series No. 265, and 56 Stat. (pt. 2) 1575. For text of press release issued by the Department on July 31, 1942, see Department of State Bulletin, August 1, 1942, p. 662.↩
- See Foreign Relations, The Soviet Union, 1933–1939, pp. 601 ff.↩
- See ibid., pp. 809 ff.↩
- See Foreign Relations, 1940, vol. iii, pp. 441 ff.↩
- See ibid., 1941, vol. i, pp. 914 ff.↩
- This was done on August 1, 1942.↩
- This approval was given on August 1, 1942.↩