124.611/275: Telegram
The Consul at Venice (Corrigan) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 27—8:50 a.m.]
Referring to Department’s telegram September 19, 2 p.m., following from Ambassador Bullitt:
“I favor heartily transfer Moscow building funds to construction at unhealthy posts in Central America.”
[With the abandonment of plans to build an Embassy in Moscow, consideration was given to reallocation of the appropriated funds for needed construction elsewhere. In a conversation with Ambassador Troyanovsky on December 2, 1936, Acting Secretary of State Moore, in order “to illustrate the entire lack of cooperation with us by the [Page 278] Soviet authorities,” repeated the reasons which had obliged the abandonment of the plan of constructing buildings in Moscow (123 Bullitt, William C./293). It was late in 1937 before Soviet authorities again mentioned the subject of an Embassy building there.]