760i.6111/48: Telegram
The Chargé in Estonia (Leonard) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 5—11:51 a.m.]
84. With reference to my telegram of today No. 83, I have just learned that the representations of the Estonian Minister at Moscow were successful to the extent that Molotov has instructed the Soviet committee now in Tallinn not to press its demands for the places mentioned in the above telegram which is interpreted unofficially here as a desire on the part of the Soviets not to disturb the atmosphere for the completion of the Latvian and Lithuanian negotiations.
In endeavoring to learn concerning the progress of Latvian negotiations in Moscow I have just been informed the Soviets are demanding a garrison of 50,000 men to be stationed in Latvia.
Repeated to Riga.