124.60I3/49: Telegram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Thurston) to the Secretary of State
Moscow, September
6, 1940—1 p.m.
[Received 5:10 p.m.]
[Received 5:10 p.m.]
1120. Embassy’s 1112, September 5, noon [11 a.m.]. Lozovski sent word to me this afternoon as follows:
- 1.
- Reinhardt, Bohlen and Ward have been granted extension of their residence permits at Riga, Kaunas and Tallinn to September 8 inclusive.
- 2.
- Authorization to grant entry visas to McClung and Mazionis has been sent to Kaunas.
- 3.
- Marquis’ residence permit at Riga is extended until such time as the question of a visa permitting him to come to Moscow has been decided. (Lozovski had intimated to me that while diplomatic officers assigned to this Mission would receive visas promptly the Soviet Government must reserve the right to examine the eligibility to such visas of non-diplomatic personnel.)
- 4.
- The shipment of Wiley’s car to Moscow has been authorized.
- 5.
- The residence permits of Packer and Washington at Riga cannot be extended (I am informed by Lightner, however, who has just [Page 438] arrived that the local authorities have assured Packer that no difficulty on this score need arise).
- 6.
- The Soviet attitude toward the granting of exit visas to non-American employees of our Baltic Missions remains as previously reported.
- 7.
- There is no change in the Soviet attitude with respect to the customs treatment of the effects of non-commissioned personnel of our Baltic Missions.
Thurston