311.6124/10a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Davis)
There are being deported from the United States to Soviet Russia about 250 citizens of Russia who are undesirable here. These persons, while enjoying the hospitality of this country, have conducted themselves in a most obnoxious manner; and while enjoying the benefits and living under the protection of this Government have plotted its overthrow. They are a menace to law and order. They hold theories which are antagonistic to the orderly processes of modern civilization. They have indulged in practices which tend to subvert the rights which the Constitution of the United States guarantees to its citizens. They are arrayed in opposition to government, to decency, to justice. They plan to apply their destructive theories by violence in derogation of law. They are anarchists. They are persons of such character as to be undesirable in the United States of America and are being sent whence they came. The deportation is in accordance with the law.
Precaution has been taken to request for them safe conduct and humane treatment at the hands of the authorities under whose jurisdiction they will pass enroute to Soviet Russia.
[Page 693]Repeat to Stockholm, Christiania, Copenhagen, The Hague and Brussels, sent direct to Paris to repeat to Sofia, Am[erican]commiss[ioner] Riga, Warsaw, Berne, Prague, Rome, Madrid, Lisbon with instructions to each to present to foreign office and to release for publication, and Paris to repeat to Berlin, Vienna, and Budapest to release for publication.