Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1939, General, Volume I

740.0011 European War 1939/522: Telegram

The Chargé in Germany (Kirk) to the Secretary of State

Berlin, September 25, 1939—11 a.m.
[Received September 25—9:14 a.m.]

1416. My 983, September 1, 1 p.m.²⁴ The morning papers published a DNB²⁵ announcement to the effect that ratifications of the Soviet-German Nonaggression Pact of August 23²⁶ were exchanged yesterday in Berlin by State Secretary von Weizsäcker and the Soviet Ambassador Schkwarzev.²⁷

Kirk

24. Not printed.
25. Deutsches Nachrichten Büro, German semi-official news agency.
26. For the text of the Treaty of Nonaggression, with the secret additional protocol, between Germany and the Soviet Union signed in Moscow and dated August 23, 1939, see Department of State, Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939–1941 (Washington, 1948), p. 76.
27. Alexander A. Shkvartsev, Soviet Ambassador to Germany from September 3, 1939.