760D.61/1305: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 12—9:55 p.m.]
281. The foreign correspondents have just been furnished the substance of a communiqué about to be released announcing the signature of a treaty of peace between the Soviet Union and Finland on substantially the same terms already reported by me. The treaty is to be ratified within 3 days and instruments of ratification are to be exchanged in Moscow. Hostilities are to cease on March 13th at noon and the Soviet troops are to occupy the new frontiers on March 15 at 10 a.m. I will telegraph the full text of the communiqué as soon as available.