Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1939, General, Volume I

661.6231/216: Telegram

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

Moscow, July 22, 1939—10 a.m.
[Received July 22—6:35 a.m.]

399. An announcement in the Soviet press today entitled “In the Commissariat for Foreign Trade”⁹² states that recently negotiations concerning trade and credit have been renewed between Germany and the Soviet Union and that these negotiations are being carried on for the Commissariat for Foreign Trade by the Soviet trade representative in Berlin and for Germany by Schnurre.

The above announcement confirms the information reported in my telegram 394, July 19, 7 p.m.,⁹³ and indicates that the German Government has acceded to the Soviet request to transfer the negotiations to Berlin.

Repeated to Berlin.

Grummon

92. The text of this announcement was sent to the German Foreign Office by the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union in his telegram of July 22, ibid., p. 32.
93. Not printed.