701.60P11/75: Telegram
The Chargé in Latvia (Packer) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 9—4:30 p.m.]
265. Have just received a note addressed to me as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim and [apparent omission] today from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs signed by Sablonski [Jablonskis] (Vice Minister) requesting me to inform my Government of the tenor of the note in which the following is brought to my notice:
The Soviet Socialist Republic of Latvia having become since August 5 a part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Latvian Government having decided that after August 6th the Latvian diplomatic and consular representations should cease their functions, Latvia will [Page 410] hereafter be represented abroad by the organs of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the U. S. S. R. The representatives of Latvia abroad have consequently been directed to deliver to the respective representatives of the U. S. S. R. their archives, their possessions and their [real property].
Moscow informed.