Office of the Historian

124.60I/29: Telegram

The Chargé in Estonia (Leonard) to the Secretary of State

Tallinn, August 13, 1940—9 a.m.
[Received August 13—6:55 a.m.]

124. With further reference to Moscow’s telegram No. 1001, the local Foreign Office, in liquidation, sent me last night a note stating that it expects that the Legation and Consulate of the United States of America will be liquidated by August 25 and offers its facilities in aiding the members of the Legation to depart from Estonia.16 No reply is being made pending Department’s instructions. To close affairs, pack and ship official and personal effects and to depart by August 25 will be practically impossible, particularly in view of limited packing and transportation facilities and rush of other legations to leave.

Leonard
  1. In his immediately preceding telegram No. 123, August 12, 9 a.m., the Chargé had informed the Department of certain obstacles in the way of closure of the Legation, and hoped that the period could be extended until August 31 (124.60I/27).↩