of the correspondence to the State Department relating to the famine comes after our recognition, with the exception of letters sent as early as March and April 1933 by the Mennonite Central Committee in Scottsdale, Pennsylvania, which did inform the Department of State, and the Office of the President that, indeed, there was a famine going on.

The first Ukrainian community organization to protest the famine officially in cor¬respondence with the Department of State was Soyuz Ukrainok Ameryky, the Uk¬rainian Women’s League, which adopted a resolution on the subject in late 1933. However, on the eve of recognition, there was a number of documents which do ap¬pear in State Department files.

An article from Le Monde of August 29, 1933, was translated and reported to the State Department by the American Mission in Paris in September 1933, that is, at the culmination of the famine, and on the eve of American recognition of the Soviet Union.

Also, in the fall of 1933, an inquiry was made by the Department of State to various missions in Europe. There is one such report from the American Legation to Greece, dated October 14th, 1933, which does indeed confirm the existence of famine on the basis of statements made by representatives of other powers which did have diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. And a similar report from the American Mission to Latvia and Riga. These were obviously ignored.
Mr. MARCHISHIN: Thank you. I assume that this will be included in the final report
Dr.MACE: Yes, it will
Would the Commissioners wish a packet of these documents to be sent to them? That can be done.
Fine, that will be duplicated and sent to all members.
Dr. KUROPAS: When we receive these documents, are they now public docu¬ments? Can we share them with the press or—
Dr. MACE: Yes, all State documents from the early 1930s are declassified and are in the public domain. They can be used, cited, and quoted. They are not classified documents today.
Mr. MARCHISHIN: Okay, if there aren’t any other questions-Ambassador DOUGLAS: Mr. Chairman, you left on the table the question of the budget
Mr. MARCHISHIN: I am going to get to that. I just wanted to get the report com¬pletely out of the way, and then I want to go on to the budget.
Ambassador DOUGLAS: And we can dispense with that quickly, so that we will have ample time for Dr. Conquest
Mr. MARCHISHIN: Yes, I would like to entertain a recommendation for accepting the report
Dr.KUROPAS: I would like to go on record as thanking Dr. Mace and the other members of the staff for the amount of help that I, personally, have received in the development of the curriculum materials, as well as the development of the Ukrainian Famine Institute that we will hold on November 8th.

And I also want to go on record as thanking Undersecretary Gary Bauer for agree¬ing to come to our institute. As some of you may be aware, this particular institute