U.S.A. AND RUSSIA
"DIPLOMATIC CHANGES"
MR. HULL'S ANNOUNCEMENT
.WASHINGTON' February 7w . The United States today drastically reduced the American diplomatic force ait Moscow and abolished consular relations with Soviet Russia in the > most complete relaxation of diplomatic contact possible short of actual severance. I Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, in a terse announcement that "certain diplomatic changes" had been put into effect in, the Soviet capital, added: "The acting Naval Attache will . be withdrawn, the Air Attache will be withdrawn, the Consulate-General will be abolished, and reductions will ,be made in the personnel of the Embassy." This step arose directly from the final collapse a week ago of the RussoAmerican debt negotiations, which began in 1933, and marked the abandonment 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 to result from recognition. The next step expected is the dissolution of the American Export and Import Bank, created in 1933 to handle Russian and American trade credits. 7
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1935, Page 3
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