Washington, Oct. 29.
HE Department of State yesterday formally condemned the Russian attitude toward the situation evolving from the detention of the American merchant ship City of Flint which was brought to Murmansk by a German prize crew. The State Department accused the Soviets of failure to ce-operate with United States officials in Moscow, in a review issued yesterday of action taken so far in regard to the vessel.
The review, similar to a white paper, which was considered as laying the groundwork for further energetic United States action, dealt at length with Soviet and German statements concerning the City of Flint, showing the confusion and conflict between the Russian and German accounts.
It pointed out that even last night, the State Department had had no information whether the vessel had actually left Murmansk. By such actions, the review stated, professed neutrality of the Soviet was open to serious question.
American officials took a serious view of the release of the City of Flint to Germany yesterday. The State Department announced that Mr. Lawrence Steinhardt, the United States Ambassador to Moscow, reported he had again attempted to communicate with the American crew of the vessel, but had failed.
Russia's release of the City of Flint to the German prize crew was considered an action which was not
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