811.003 Wallace, Henry A/72: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
[Received 10:51 p.m.]
2199. For the President and the Secretary. I have just returned from spending two days with Mr. Wallace at Tashkent and one at Alma Ata,71 at which latter point he headed for China. He was greeted by the Soviet officials and agriculturists with great cordiality and respect, and with enthusiasm on the part of the Russian audiences at the theatres he attended. His speech delivered in Russian at Tashkent was well received.
His interest in and knowledge of scientific agriculture made a profound impression. He himself has been greatly impressed by the scientific work and seed selection carried on by the Soviet stations he visited in Siberia and Central Asia, and the results attained in the application of science to the substantial increase of agricultural production. He concentrated his attention in his travels largely on these stations and collective farms. He leaves Russia with real enthusiasm for what has been accomplished in this field in so short a time.
I had the opportunity to discuss in detail with him and Mr. Vincent72 my talk with Marshal Stalin on Soviet-Chinese relations as reported in my Navy cable no. 110541, June 11.