Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, Eastern Europe, The Soviet Union, Volume VI

361.11/11–1946: Airgram

The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Smith) to the Secretary of State

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Moscow, November 19, 1946.
[Received December 27—8:54 a.m.]

A–788. Dept’s airgram 368, October 30.⁶⁶ The Embassy is presently pressing for exit visas for the following Soviet wives of American citizens:

• Mrs. Louis Hirshfield
• Mrs. William Wallace
• Mrs. George Atkins
• Mrs. Michael Shabon
• Mrs. Antonia Richardson
• Mrs. Sergei Guden
• Mrs. Serge Dankevich
• Mrs. Frank Ross
• Mrs. John Biconish
• Mrs. Alan Yaross
• Mrs. Leon Patlach
• Mrs. Nina Barton
• Mrs. Robert Tucker

Mrs. Barton’s name was inadvertently omitted from the group of eleven Soviet wives for whom the Embassy was currently trying to obtain exit visas and mentioned in the Embassy’s despatch No. 390 of September 13, 1946.⁶⁶ At that time the Embassy had not taken up with the Foreign Office the case of Mrs. Robert Tucker.

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