AMERICA AND RUSSIA
SEVERANCE OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS m MOTIONS DEFEATED Frwi Associstion-r-By Telegraph-Copyright WASHINGTON, February 8. (Received February 9, at 8 a.m.) Tile House of Representatives twice refused to act towards ending relations between Russia and America, rejecting'by 108 votes to 105 ah amendment to the State Department’s Appropriation Bill to withhold funds for the Moscow Ambassador’s salary, and by 93 to 38 an amendment prohibiting the State Department from maintaining an embassy’ in Russia. * BIVIET NBT MEETING OBLIGATIONS .. WASHINGTON, February 8. (Received February 9, at 10.5 a.m.)’ The Secretary of State, Mr Cordell Hull, informed the Foreign Relations Committee that continuance of relatiohs with the Soviet “ are not wholly contingent” on the fulfilment of'the Litvinov pledges preceding recognition. Mr'Hull cited several occasions when the' State Department believed that Russia was not fully meeting such obligations, including the holding of a Comintern congress in Moscow in 1935 snd the arrests of American citizens.
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Evening Star, Issue 23496, 9 February 1940, Page 8
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