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BOSTON DAILY TRANSCRIPT, Dec. 11, 1933
* American flag flies over Moscow - Soviet Union
* Very first time officially re. diplomatic relations
The front page has a two column heading: "Old Glory for the First Time Flies Officially Over Soviet Russian Capital" with subhead. (see images)
Complete with 24 pages, light toning at the margins, small binding holes along the spine, generally very nice.
AI notes: December 11, 1933, marked the first time in history that the American flag officially flew over Moscow as a symbol of formal diplomatic relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. Although the United States had maintained embassies and flown its flag in St. Petersburg during the era of the Russian Empire before 1917, it refused to recognize the Bolshevik government after the Russian Revolution and therefore had no official diplomatic presence in Moscow for more than sixteen years. The raising of the flag followed the exchange of recognition letters between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov and signified the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Contemporary observers and newspapers treated the event as a historic first, emblematic of a dramatic shift in American foreign policy and a moment of pragmatic engagement amid the global economic crisis of the Great Depression.
December 11, 1933
BOSTON DAILY TRANSCRIPT, Dec. 11, 1933
* American flag flies over Moscow - Soviet Union
* Very first time officially re. diplomatic relations
The front page has a two column heading: "Old Glory for the First Time Flies Officially Over Soviet Russian Capital" with subhead. (see images)
Complete with 24 pages, light toning at the margins, small binding holes along the spine, generally very nice.
AI notes: December 11, 1933, marked the first time in history that the American flag officially flew over Moscow as a symbol of formal diplomatic relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. Although the United States had maintained embassies and flown its flag in St. Petersburg during the era of the Russian Empire before 1917, it refused to recognize the Bolshevik government after the Russian Revolution and therefore had no official diplomatic presence in Moscow for more than sixteen years. The raising of the flag followed the exchange of recognition letters between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov and signified the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Contemporary observers and newspapers treated the event as a historic first, emblematic of a dramatic shift in American foreign policy and a moment of pragmatic engagement amid the global economic crisis of the Great Depression.
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