Office of the Historian

840.811/7–2948: Telegram

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

Moscow, July 29, 1948.

1450. Soviet press July 29 announces air departure of Soviet Delegation to Danube Conference headed by Vishinsky; Deputy Minister Merchant Marine S. M. Bayev; Deputy Minister Foreign Trade S. A. Bor[i]sov; Ambassador to Yugoslavia A. I. Lavrentyev; and Deputy Director of Balkan Countries Section of Ministry Foreign Affairs, Minister Plenipotentiary S. P. Kirsanov. Belgrade Tass despatch announces arrival Ukrainian Delegation headed by Comrade Baranovski.1 Size delegations not given.2

Sent Department 1450, repeated Belgrade 52.

Kohler
  1. Anatol Maximovich Baranovsky was the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.↩
  2. The arrival of Vyshinsky, Ana Pauker, and others in Belgrade during the afternoon of July 29 was reported in telegram 1017 from Belgrade on July 30, 1948.↩