Office of the Historian

761.94/1375: Telegram

The Secretary of Embassy in the Soviet Union (Dickerson) to the Secretary of State

Kuibyshev, December 19, 1941—6 p.m.
[Received December 20—3:48 a.m.]

2085. Volskaya Kommuna today publishes without comment a Tass despatch from Tokyo dated yesterday and briefly summarizing the speech of the Japanese Foreign Minister before the special session of Parliament. Togo is quoted as stating in respect of Soviet-Japanese relations that Japan has not altered its policy of assuring security in the north and that the Soviet Government has also repeatedly declared its intention of adherence to its neutrality pact with Japan.

Dickerson