Office of the Historian

760D.6115/50: Telegram

The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Thurston) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, April 30, 1940—noon.
[Received April 30—10:54 a.m.]

478. Pravda today announces the signature April 29 in Moscow by Molotov and Paasikivi of a protocol delineating the frontier between the Soviet Union and Finland26 in accordance with article 2 of the peace treaty of March 12, 1940.

Thurston
  1. The Ambassador in the Soviet Union reported in telegram No. 1353, October 16, 5 p.m., that the demarcation of the land and sea frontiers over a distance of 705 kilometers had been completed by the placement of 1,036 land and 8 sea frontier posts (760D.6115/56). The Minister in Finland, however, advised that the Finnish Government did not expect that the actual boundary protocol would be signed until November 5 (760D.6115/57). See also telegram No. 460, November 6, 1 p.m., from the Minister in Finland, p. 353.↩