Office of the Historian

760d.61/234: Telegram

The Minister in Finland (Schoenfeld) to the Secretary of State

Helsinki, October 10, 1939—11 a.m.
[Received October 10—7:22 a.m.]

232. Press today reports departure for Moscow last night of Minister Paasikivi as special envoy accompanied by Colonel Paasonen the President’s35 senior aide-de-camp as military expert and Mr. Nykopp of the Foreign Office as secretary. Evidence of military preparations on extensive scale increasingly apparent.

Schoenfeld
  1. Kyösti Kailio.↩