Office of the Historian

760d.61/541: Telegram

The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Thurston) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, December 1, 1939—8 a.m.
[Received December 1—2:35 a.m.]

980. Handed to Valkov, Chief of the American Division, at 7:45 a.m. a personal note containing the message from Helsinki quoted in my 979, December 1, 6 a.m.93

Thurston
  1. By 8:30 a.m., the Chargé reported in telegram No. 981, December 1, that he had heard by telephone from Riga the Department’s telegraphic instruction No. 257, November 30, which had been telephoned to the Minister in Sweden for relay. On this information the Chargé had telephoned to Valkov, advising that he had received authorization to transmit the message from the Finnish Government, and assuming responsibility only for such transmission.↩