Notes
1Untitled minute, E. O. Coote, Northern Department, 14 June 1941, N2805G/78/38, National Archives, United Kingdom, Kew (hereafter NAUK) Foreign Office (hereafter FO) 371 29482; and untitled minute, C. F. A. Warner, head, Northern Department, 29 June 1941, N3231/3/38, NAUK FO 371 29466.
2Kellogg to A. B. Houghton, US ambassador in London, no. 212, strictly personal and confidential for the ambassador, 4 November 1926, 861.01/1175, National Archives, Washington, DC (hereafter NA), Record Group 59, M[icrofilm]-316, reel 75.
3Kelley, chief, Eastern European division, State Department, to Secretary of State, 27 April 1929, 861.51/2280, NA, M-316, reel 123.
4Jean Payart, French chargé d'affaires in Moscow, no. 386, 4 October 1934, Ministère des Affaires étrangères, Paris (hereafter MAÉ), Europe 1918 – 40, Z-URSS/1260, ff. 321 – 322; and Stalin to V. M. Molotov, Politburo member and Stalin's right arm, 29 August 1929 (Lih Citation1995, pp. 174 – 175).
5Litvinov to Stalin, secret, 25 December 1933 (Sevost'yanov et al. Citation2002, pp. 748 – 749).
6Litvinov to A. A. Troyanovskii, Soviet polpred in Washington, 14 March 1934 (Sevost'yanov et al. Citation2003, pp. 57 – 60); Litvinov to Troyanovskii, 3 April 1934 (Sevost'yanov et al. Citation2003, pp. 96 – 97); Troyanovskii to Litvinov, 16 April 1934 (Sevost'yanov et al. Citation2003, p. 119); Troyanovskii to Litvinov, secret, 24 July 1934, (Sevost'yanov et al. Citation2003, pp. 187 – 189); N. N. Krestinskii, deputy commissar for foreign affairs, to L. M. Kaganovich, secretary, central committee, VKP (b), secret, 13 August 1934 (Sevost'yanov et al. Citation2003, pp. 193 – 195); Litvinov to Sovnarkom, 8 October 1934 (Sevost'yanov et al. Citation2003, p. 241); Kh. S. Veinberg's summary of Soviet – American negotiations, very secret, 14 November 1934 (Sevost'yanov et al. Citation2003, pp. 269 – 274); and Krestinskii to Troyanovskii, personal, very secret, 17 May 1935 (Sevost'yanov et al. Citation2003, pp. 321 – 323).
7Payart, nos. 326 – 329, 4 May 1939, MAÉ, Papiers Naggiar, vol. 40.
8Lady Violet Milner's record of conversations in Paris, 2 January 1939, C792/15/18, NAUK FO 371 22961. Milner was the editor of National Review in London.
9Untitled minute, Fitzroy Maclean, Northern Department, 2 January 1940, reporting a meeting with French embassy official Boniface de Castellane, on the previous day, N303/9/56, NAUK FO 371 24796.
10Ronald Campbell, British ambassador in Paris, no. 173, saving, 2 March 1940, C3260/1101/17, NAUK FO 371 24323; and Campbell, no. 336, confidential, 27 March 1940, C4517/1101/17, NAUK FO 371 24323.
11Daladier to Payart, nos. 103 – 105, extrême urgence, priorité, 8 March 1940, MAÉ, Papiers Naggiar, vol. 44; Diplomatie to Payart, nos. 111 – 113, 10 March 1940, MAÉ, Papiers Naggiar, vol. 44; untitled minute, Sir Alexander Cadogan, permanent under-secretary, 8 March 1940, N2935G/9/56, NAUK FO 371 24804; and untitled minute, Sir Orme G. Sargent, deputy permanent under-secretary, 9 March 1940, N2990/9/56, NAUK FO 371 24804.
12Untitled minute, F. K. Roberts, 26 March 1940, C4615G/1101/17, NAUK FO 371 24323.
13A marginal, undated but post facto note by Paul-Émile Naggiar, French ambassador in Moscow, recalled to Paris, on Diplomatie to Payart, nos. 111 – 113, 10 March 1940, MAÉ, Papiers Naggiar, vol. 44.
14Deputy Director Military Intelligence, Far East, to War Office, no. 07367, important, 3 November 1941, N6515G/78/28, NAUK FO 371 29493.
15Untitled minute, Warner, FO, 3 December 1941, N7081G/122/38, NAUK FO 371 29501; and Cavendish Bentinck's untitled minute, 4 December 1941, N7081G/122/38 NAUK FO 371 29501.
16‘Mr. Warner’, Brigadier E. O. Skaife, 16 June 1941, N3500G/3014/38, NAUK FO 371 29561; and untitled minute, Cavendish Bentinck, 16 September 1941, N5219G/3014/38, NAUK FO 371 29563.
17Untitled minute on the ‘Ukrainian Quislings’, Cavendish Bentinck, 30 September 1941, N5447/78/38, NAUK, FO 371 29490.
18See the papers in jacket no. N5169/78/38, 10 September 1941, NAUK FO 371 29490.
19Churchill to Cripps, no. 47, immediate, 28 October 1941, N6583G/3/38, NAUK FO 371 29471.
20‘Secretary of State’, Sir Robert Vansittart, chief diplomatic advisor, 19 December 1938, C358G/281/17, NAUK FO 371 22922; and untitled minute, Edward Lord Halifax, foreign secretary, 23 January 1939, C940G/281/17, NAUK FO 371 22922.
21Untitled minute, F. E. Evans, Northern Department, 14 June 1941, N2793G/78/38, NAUK FO 371 29482.
22Excerpt from Umanskii to Narkomindel, 13 July 1941 (Dokumentry vneshrei politiki, vol. 24, Moscow, 2000 (hereafter DVP), pp. 147 – 49); Umanskii to Narkomindel, 17 July 1941 (DVP, pp. 160 – 62); Umanskii to Narkomindel, 29 July 1941 (DVP, pp. 192 – 93); Umanskii and F. I. Golikov, head of the Soviet military mission in Washington, to Narkomindel, 31 July 1941 (DVP, pp. 203 – 05); Umanskii to Narkomindel, 5 August 1941 (DVP, pp. 216 – 18); Umanskii to Narkomindel, 8 August 1941 (DVP, pp. 223 – 24); and Umanskii to Stalin, 13 September 1941 (DVP, pp. 299 – 300).
23Text of V. M. Molotov's radio address, 22 June 1941, published in Izvestiya, 24 June 1941 (DVP, pp. 8 – 9).
24Cripps, no. 1107, immediate, most secret, 7 September 1941, N5113G/78/38, NAUK, FO 371 29490; and Cripps, no. 111, confidential, 15 September 1941, N5447/78/38, NAUK, FO 371 29490.
25Record of conversation with Maurice Hindus, S. A. Lozovskii, deputy commissar for foreign affairs, 13 June 1942 (Sevost'yanov et al. Citation2004, pp. 242 – 246).