Office of the Historian

760d.61/710: Telegram

The Consul General at Geneva (Tittmann) to the Secretary of State

Geneva, December 11, 1939—9 p.m.
[Received December 11—6:16 p.m.]

317. The Finnish appeal was referred by the Assembly this afternoon to an ad hoc committee of 13 after an address by Holsti the Finnish delegate, which will presumably be reported fully in the press. The committee of 13 met after the Assembly and, on the basis of article XV, paragraph 3 of the Covenant, despatched a telegram to the Russian Government,23 citing the Finnish appeal and requesting cessation of hostilities with a view to negotiations.

Tittmann
  1. The text of the telegram from José Caeiro da Matta, the Portuguese Chairman of the Special Committee of the Assembly, is in League of Nations, Official Journal, Nos. 11–12 (pt. II), November–December 1939, p. 529. For the reply by Molotov, see telegram No. 1077, December 13, from the Ambassador in the Soviet Union, Foreign Relations, The Soviet Union, 1933–1939, p. 803.↩