861.404/502: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Standley) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 22—7:29 a.m.]
915. Department’s 562, July 14, 7 p.m.16 Question reviewed with Foreign Office yesterday. Chief of American Division stated that he personally was working on the problem but that because of many errors in spelling of names, inadequate addresses and frequent changes in addresses without advice as to new addresses, he had been able to make but little progress with the list and he felt that it would be some time before the Soviet authorities would be able to locate even a part of the persons in question. He said that the general question of the policy of the Soviet Government regarding permission for the group to leave the Soviet Union was still undecided but he hoped to have an answer to this question in the near future.17
- Not printed, but see the Ambassador’s telegram No. 540, May 27, 1 p.m., p. 656.↩
- Near the end of the year the question of the evacuation from the Soviet Union of this group of rabbis and Jewish students remained unresolved. The Embassy in Moscow had kept in touch with the Australian Legation, as the representative of Polish interests in the Soviet Union, and also intended to inquire of the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs directly regarding any developments in this matter.↩