Office of the Historian

860D.7761/9: Telegram

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

Moscow, September 15, 1940.
[Received September 15—noon.]

1173. The press this morning reports the signature in Moscow on September 6th of a Soviet-Finnish agreement concerning railway [Page 344] communications.54 According to the brief announcement appearing in the press, the agreement provides for direct passenger and freight traffic between the Soviet Union and Finland, the right of transit through Finland for Soviet-Swedish trade, and for railway communication with the areas leased by the Soviet Union on the Hango Peninsula.

Repeated to Helsinki.

Thurston
  1. Convention regarding Joint Goods Traffic by Rail between Finland and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, signed at Moscow on September 6,1940; for official texts, see Finland, Treaty Series, 1940, No. 19, pp. 110–115.↩