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

760m.61/80: Telegram

The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, October 4, 1939—2 p.m.
[Received October 4—9:18 a.m.]

673. The press reports the arrival of the Lithuanian Minister for Foreign Affairs yesterday and a 2–hour conversation in the evening with Molotov at which Stalin, Potemkin, the Soviet Chargé d’Affaires in Kaunas, and the Lithuanian Minister in Moscow were present. No indication of the subjects under discussion is given.

Repeated to Kaunas.

Steinhardt