760m.6111/42
The Secretary of State to the Polish Ambassador (Potocki)
Washington, October 20,
1939.
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of October 19, 1939, stating that the Polish Government, taking cognizance of the pact of mutual assistance between Lithuania and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics signed on October 10, 1939, has presented to the Government of Lithuania a formal protest against the acceptance by that Government of any territory ceded by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which does not belong to the said Union.
Accept [etc.]
Cordell Hull