760d.61/538: Telegram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Thurston) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 30—3 p.m.]
976. The text of Molotov’s address as published in today’s Moscow papers differs in no important respect from the résumé transmitted in the Embassy’s telegram 965, November 30, 1 a.m., apart from the omission of his spoken assertion that “no other government has the right to interfere in matters between the Soviet Union and Finland.” The printed text likewise makes more apparent the distinction drawn between the “hostile policy of the ruling circles in Finland” and the “evil will of the present Finnish rulers” and the prospect of “friendly cooperation with the Finnish people” which would result from their acquiescence in the achievement of Soviet objectives in Finland.