800.515/7–2444: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 25—7:04 p.m.]
2741. ReDeptel 1519, June 20, 5 p.m. In a letter dated July 22, Vyshinski94 states that the Soviet Government has informed the British Government of its agreement with the proposal for the introduction in Austria of a special currency separate from the Allied military mark and with the proposal that the part of the Austrian currency needed by the Soviet Government should be printed by the British Government.
The letter states that in this regard the Soviets have in mind that from the total sum of the Austrian currency which the British Government proposes to print, one-third be allotted for the needs of the Soviet Government (not less than one and one-half billion schillings) and that these monetary tokens be supplied to the Soviet Government at their net cost (of production). The Soviet Government has also expressed the desire that the delivery of the bank notes to the Soviet Union should begin with the month of August.
- Audrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky, Vice President of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union; Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs.↩