760p.6111/48: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
Moscow, October 5,
1939—9 p.m.
[Received October 5—6 p.m.]
[Received October 5—6 p.m.]
687. The Soviet-Latvian pact was signed this afternoon. Following a dinner at the Kremlin the Latvian Foreign Minister left this evening by train for Riga. The text of the pact is not yet available but is expected to be released tonight by Tass.
Repeated to Riga.
Steinhardt