Office of the Historian

340.1115A/11–744: Telegram

The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Kennan) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, November 7, 1944—noon.
[Received 12:35 p.m.]

4260. ReDepts 2610, November 4, 8 p.m.2 We have inquired through the Foreign Office whether the Soviet postal authorities are agreeable to the resumption of parcel post service from the U. S. to the Soviet Union. We will endeavor to obtain an early reply but a delay of several weeks is possible.

Kennan
  1. Not printed; this telegram indicated that the Post Office Department proposed to resume parcel post service immediately with all of the Soviet Union (340.1115a/10–2844).↩