858.248/10–844: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received 1:55 p.m.]
8487. We have given Foreign Office orally the substance of Department’s 8247, October 7, 7 p.m.81 When doing so we were told that a message had just been received from the British Minister at Stockholm stating that the Secretary General of the Swedish Foreign Office had informed him that Madame Kollontay already knows of the proposed release of airmen and had been promised that in any release effected 10 Russian internees would be simultaneously released “on account”.
Repeated to Stockholm and Moscow.
Our 8372, October 5, 7 p.m. has also been repeated to Moscow and Stockholm.