Office of the Historian

123 Hirshfield, Louis M./55: Telegram

The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Standley) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, May 10, 1943—1 p.m.
[Received 10:24 p.m.]

422. Department’s 273, May 1, 8 p.m. In my conversation of May 6 with Molotov I inquired whether a personal appeal to Kalinin or even Stalin might assist in expediting action on the long pending cases of the Soviet spouses of the American citizens in question. Molotov apparently did not favor such a course. As a counter-proposal he stated that he personally would endeavor to help me. Page discussed the question yesterday with Zarubin who promised to assist in every way possible. I sense a changed attitude on the part of the Foreign Office in regard to this vexing question and I am inclined to believe that we may now get action in the not too distant future.66

Standley
  1. Through 1943 Louis Hirshfield remained in the Soviet Union and on June 18 married Mrs. Savine. Ellsworth Raymond and his wife and baby went to Tehran in the early autumn; he resigned from the Foreign Service effective March 15, 1944. See also footnote 50, p. 515.↩