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(Untitled), 23 Apr 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/74/13

Scope and Contents

Telegram from Sir Archibald Clark Kerr [British Ambassador to the Soviet Union, later 1st Lord Inverchapel] to WSC reciting a message from Joseph Stalin of 22 April regarding chemical weapons: thanks WSC for his willingness to issue a warning against the use of poison gases by Germany and Finland; details quantities of hypochloride of calcium, chloramine and liquid chlorine required by the Soviet Union; proposes to send Andrei Georgiyevich Kasatkin (Deputy Peoples Commissar of Chemical Industry) to London.

Dates

  • Creation: 23 Apr 1942

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Open

Language of Materials

English

External Documents

Former / Other Reference

T 611/2

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