AMERICA AND RUSSIA
Former Abolishes Consular Relations
MOSCOW STAFF REDUCED By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received 'February 7, 7 p.m.) Washington. Febuary 7. The United States to-day drastically reduced the American diplomatic force at Moscow and abolished consular relations with Soviet Russia in the most complete relaxation of diplomatic contact possible short of actual severance. Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, in a terse announcement that “certain diplomatic.changes” had been put int-» effect in the Soviet capital, added: “The i acting Naval Attache will os withdrawn, (he Air Attache will be withdrawn, the Consulate-General wl.I be abolished, and reductions will bo made in the personnel of the Embassy.'’ This step arose directly from the final collapse a week ago of the Russo American debt negotiations, which began in 1933, and marked the abandon ment of the complex machinery which the American Government set up over a year ago to handle the “billion dollar a year” trade with Russia that was (0 result from recognition. The next step expected is the dissolution of the American Export and Import Bank, created in 1933 to handle Russian ami American trade credits
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 115, 8 February 1935, Page 11
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186AMERICA AND RUSSIA Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 115, 8 February 1935, Page 11
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