711.61/720: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt)
197. You are commended for the able manner in which you replied to Lozovski’s complaints as set forth in your 332 of March 28.
The Soviet Ambassador made similar complaints to me yesterday98 during the course of a long conversation in which we discussed the whole field of American-Soviet relations. He asked in particular whether this Government intended to break off commercial relations with the Soviet Union, and again raised the question of the moral embargo. I made it clear to him that this Government was not [Page 277] responsible for such disturbances as may exist in Soviet-American relations. I gave the Ambassador no definite reply as to when the moral embargo would terminate, pointing out to him that we do not know whether the Soviet Union will embark upon another war and will engage again in the bombing of civilians.