893.01 Outer Mongolia/90: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 4—3 p.m.]
99. Stomoniakoff, Assistant Commissioner for Foreign Affairs in charge of Far Eastern matters, said to me today that the latest Soviet information from Japan, Manchuria and Mongolia indicates that the Japanese Government has no intention whatsoever of making an immediate attack on either Outer Mongolia or the Soviet Union. He [Page 102] expressed the belief that the recent fighting on the Manchurian-Mongolian frontier had been begun by undisciplined action of younger Japanese officers against the will not only of the Government in Tokyo but also of the new commander-in-chief in Manchuria. He insisted that there had been no Soviet soldiers or officers with the Mongolian troops which repelled the attack.