660i.6131/44: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union ( Steinhardt ) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 26—9:40 p.m.]
620. My telegram No. 609, September 25, noon. I have learned in the strictest confidence that the proposal presented to the Estonian Foreign Minister by Molotov on Sunday night3 provided for an even greater enlargement of transit facilities through Estonia for Soviet goods vital to Germany than those already in the treaty which the Foreign Minister had come to Moscow to sign. It was further intimated, although details were not forthcoming, that Molotov verbally made additional demands in regard to the fortified Estonian [islands].
Repeated to Riga.
- September 24.↩