Arrest and detention of American citizens in the Soviet Union and of Soviet citizens in the United States, and arrangements for return to their own countries ⁹⁸

^98. For previous correspondence on the arrest and detention of American citizens by the Soviet Government in contravention of the undertaking of November 16, 1933, see Foreign Relations, The Soviet Union, 1933–1939, pp. 491–503, 708–726, and 904–918. On the arrest in the United States of a Soviet citizen charged with violation of the espionage laws, see ibid., pp. 726–730, and 918–926. The text of the undertaking of November 16, 1933, is in an exchange of letters between President Roosevelt and People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, ibid., pp. 33–34. For the Espionage Act, approved June 15, 1917, see 40 Stat. 217.

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