Foreign Relations of the United States, The Soviet Union, 1933–1939

740.00111 European War 1939/72: Telegram

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

Tallinn, September 5, 1939—4 p.m.
[Received September 5—1:42 p.m.]

43. Supplementing my telegram No. 41,⁹⁵ Estonia’s neutrality proclamation makes effective the neutrality law of December 3, 1938, a translation of which was furnished to the Department in despatch dated February 13, 1939.^95a

Estonian Foreign Office as well as Chief of the Army Staff do not place credence in rumors of a secret understanding between Germany and the Soviet Union contemplating the Soviets’ occupation of Estonia nor do they believe that any present Russian troop movements on the western frontier point to that end.

Leonard

95. Dated September 2, 9 a.m., not printed.
96. Not printed.