Office of the Historian

702.6111/232: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Russian Consul at Boston (Conry)34

Washington, November 17, 1933.

In view of the recognition of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics by the Government of the United States, you are informed that the exequatur issued on September 20, 1912, recognizing you as Consul of Russia at Boston, is revoked, effective as of November 16, 1933, and that consequently your status as Russian Consul is considered terminated as of that date.

William Phillips
  1. The same telegram, mutatis mutandis, was sent to the Russian Consuls General at Chicago and Seattle (702.6111/231, 233). An acknowledgment, dated November 18 (702.6111/234), was received from Mr. Volkoff, Russian Consul General at Chicago.↩