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WAR_CAB_IHET distribution .
From SOVIET PWTOW .
S ^FROM MOSCOW TO FOREIGN OFFICE.
Sir S. Cripps.
Mo. 121-1.
Vth October, 1941.
D. 2.37 p.m. Uh October, 191.1.
R. 8.30 p.m. Ith October, 19U.
Tkii iksKc&t X- £ tUu. uf.
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IMMEDIATE
Your telegram Do* 1392.
As it was not possible to [grp. omtd ? see] Stalin or
Molotov yesterday and I did not want to hold up the message
any longer I handed it with Russian translation to Vyshinski
yesterday afternoon and told him I would gladly discuss it
[grp, omtd. ? with] Stalin if he wished to see me v/hen he was
less busy.
2.. I emphasised to Vyshinski the need for doing
everything possible to speed up transport; it was a waste
ol time to load and unload goods at Kasvin or Zenjan unless
there were some overriding necessity connected with
convenience of transport.
3. .1 told him that I mentioned this in case there was
some political consideration involved. He assured me that there
v/as not, at least not in the mind of the Soviet Government,
though of course there might be in the mind of some
subordinate on the spot, but that would have no influence.
A. He said that the Soviet Government would wish to
have regard to nothing but convenience of transport
arrangements and he promised to take up the matter with
Mikbyan.
3. Since drafting this I have been informed the
Soviet authorities have agreed to accept delivery at
Tabriz instead of Zenjan but that as regards Kasvin there
is at present no change in their attitude.
Please inform Ministry of Economic Warfare.
[Copies sent to Ministry of Economic Warfare],
RECa POL. DEPr,
90CT 941
I^DIA OFFICE
INDIV