300.115(39)/157: Telegram
The Minister in Finland (Schoenfeld) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 18—11:43 a.m.]
336. I spoke to the Minister for Foreign Affairs this morning in the sense of your telegram No. 153, yesterday. He informed me that 3 Finnish ships long held in German ports with cargoes for the United States had now been released on guarantee by the bank of Finland as to destination. He had hopes that similarly satisfactory arrangement would shortly be possible with regard to others of some 15 Finnish ships detained. It has been suggested that the German Government was discriminating against Finnish ships but the Minister for Foreign Affairs said he had no reason to believe this is the case.