Sustained interest of the United States in freedom of religion and religious conditions in the Soviet Union ⁶⁴

^64. For previous correspondence on this subject and on the reestablishment of the Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, see Foreign Relations, 1943, vol. iii, pp. 855 ff. For the exchange of letters between President Roosevelt and the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (Litvinov) at Washington, November 16, 1933, in regard to freedom of conscience and religious liberty for American citizens residing in the Soviet Union, see Foreign Relations, The Soviet Union, 1933–1939, pp. 29–33.