740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/4–2645: Telegram
The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 26—10:50 a.m.]
227. Please see my 152, March 21, 4 p.m. The surly, ill-considered conduct of the Russian military authorities in matters of operational interest to this mission continues. The Mission has today been informed that “the Russian High Command does not sanction the entry into Bulgaria of clerks Fay and Downs”.35
I trust the Department will take such action in Moscow as this uncooperative and ill advised decision justifies. The need for these employees has been and continues to be urgent. The anomaly of our Ally making it impossible for the Mission to fulfill the function for which it was established should be apparent to Moscow even if it is not to the dim Russian military mind here.
Repeated to Moscow as 103 and to AmPolAd as 113.
- Marie F. Fay and Ednamay B. Downs.↩