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

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The Chairman of the Government Purchasing Commission of the Soviet Union in the U.S.A. (Rudenko) to Mr. Willard L. Thorp, Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs

Washington, January 22, 1946.

Dear Mr. Thorp: With reference to your letter of January 4, 1946, I wish to state that the question raised in your letter is beyond the competence of the Government Purchasing Commission of the Soviet Union in the U.S.A.

Sincerely yours,

L. Rudenko