860I.00/427: Telegram
The Chargé in Estonia (Leonard) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5:25 p.m.]
70. Supplementing my telegrams Nos. 68 and 69.50 The announcement of the new government has pacified the situation and everything appears normal again. The members of the former government and higher military officials have their freedom.
Two members of the new government, the Minister of the Interior and the Minister for Social Affairs, are considered communistic, otherwise members are socialists or nationalists. The new Prime Minister51 has announced that the government will shortly make a declaration of its policy which is expected to be similar to that already made in Latvia.