760d.61/430: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 10—7:45 a.m.]
881. For the President, the Secretary and the Under Secretary. I have been informed with the customary request for strict confidence that the Soviet-Finnish negotiations yesterday evening at which Stalin, Molotov and the two Finnish delegates were present made no progress towards the solution of the two principal questions at issue; namely, the Soviet demand for a base in the vicinity of Hango and the exact location of the Finnish-Soviet frontier north of Leningrad, [Page 996] but that despite this the negotiations were carried on in a friendly-atmosphere and will continue. The exact time of the next meeting has not been fixed and may have to await further consultation with Helsinki.