740.00114 Pacific War/138: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Standley) to the Secretary of State
Kuibyshev (Moscow), February 6, 1943—8 p.m.
[Received February 7—3:50 p.m.]
[Received February 7—3:50 p.m.]
118. Department’s 41, January 18. I outlined to Vyshinski70 on February 5 the considerations set forth in the Department’s telegram and left with him an aide-mémoire on the question. Vyshinski promised to bring the proposal immediately to the attention of his Government. I requested an expeditious reply, stressing the desperate situation of the United Nations nationals in Japanese custody.
Standley
- Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky, First Assistant People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.↩