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

740.0011 European War 1939/569: Telegram

The Chargé in Latvia ( Packer ) to the Secretary of State

Riga , September 27, 1939—noon.
[Received September 27—8:43 a.m.]

197. High Foreign Office official has just informed me that Foreign Office has no indication that Latvia is involved in the present Estonian-Soviet discussions. He considers Ribbentrop’s visit to Moscow is in connection with such discussions.⁶

Selter and party have just left Riga by plane for Moscow. Local Soviet and Estonian Ministers talked with them at the airport but no Latvian officials present.

Packer

6. For Ribbentrop’s visit to Moscow and the texts of the German-Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty, and supplementary protocols, signed there on September 28, 1939, see Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939–1941, pp. 101 ff.