Office of the Historian

760D.61/1536: Telegram

The Minister in Finland (Schoenfeld) to the Secretary of State

Helsinki, November 6, 1940—1 p.m.
[Received November 6—12:58 p.m.]

460. The Prime Minister told me today that with the signature yesterday of the boundary protocol at Imatra75 between Finnish and Russian boundary commissions pending ratification shortly, a number of outstanding issues with the Soviet Union was being steadily reduced. Another difficulty had arisen in the form of Soviet protest against a number of books recently published in Finland regarding last winter’s war, some of which the Soviet Government considered derogatory to the Red army. Some of these publications had been suppressed and the Prime Minister expressed the opinion that pending the termination of the general war there was no particular reason why publications of this type should be allowed to circulate.

Schoenfeld
  1. See telegram No. 478, April 30, noon, from the Chargé in the Soviet Union, and footnote 26, p. 328. In the exchange of notes of May 10, 1941, announcing the ratification of this protocol, the date of its signature is given as November 18, 1940.↩