Office of the Historian

711.94114 Supplies/10–2444: Telegram

The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Kennan) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, October 24, 1944—3 p.m.
[Received October 24—11:33 a.m.]

4056. ReEmbs 3200, August 28, 5 p.m.6 We have received from the Foreign Office a note dated October 21 which states that masters of Soviet vessels now ready to sail from west coast ports of the United States have been instructed to accept from the appropriate American authorities postal correspondence sent from the United States to American prisoners of war and civilian internees in Japan.

Kennan
  1. Not printed, but see footnote 96, p. 1181.↩