760d.61/415: Telegram
The Minister in Finland (Schoenfeld) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 6—12:55 p.m.]
313. Minister for Foreign Affairs informed me today that three Scandinavian Governments had recently made further démarche at Moscow in behalf of fair adjustment of relations between Soviet Union and fellow neutral state Finland. He said in response to inquiry that he had scrupulously refrained from soliciting help from Sweden or even inquiring regarding Swedish Government’s attitude in certain eventualities because he felt situation was too delicate for any other procedure. As to effort of Soviet Government to exclude Sweden from proposed refortification of Aland Islands, Finnish Government in its written answer to the Russian proposals, including this point, had confined itself, merely to taking note of Soviet position.