6601.6131/42: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 25—7:05 p.m. (a.m.?)]
609. My telegram No. 599, September 23, 5 [6] p.m. The Estonian Foreign Minister who arrived yesterday was summoned to the Kremlin last night from the ballet. He returned to the hotel at which he was stopping, collected his luggage and spent the rest of the night at the Estonian Legation. He flew back to Tallinn via Riga by 8 o’clock plane this morning. The Estonian Minister here is leaving by air tomorrow for Tallinn.
I have not yet been able to ascertain the reason for the Foreign Minister’s sudden departure but it appears certain that he was presented with certain demands at the Kremlin possibly along the lines indicated in the last sentence of my telegram No. 599, September 23, 5 [6] p.m., or even of a more far reaching nature.
Repeated to Riga.