Office of the Historian

124.60M/26: Telegram

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

Moscow, August 21, 1940—4 p.m.
[Received 5:10 p.m.]

1048. Pursuant to the Department’s 464, August 20, 6 p.m., I arranged to see Lozovski this afternoon at half past four. At three o’clock Valkov,23 Chief of the American Section of the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, requested that Mr. Dickerson24 or Mr. Ward25 come to see him. In the absence of Dickerson, Ward called at Valkov’s office and was notified as follows: (1) The Soviet Government agrees to the extension of the existence of the American Government establishments at Tallinn, Riga and Kaunas to September 5 inclusive; and (2) the Soviet Government is unable to agree to the establishment of any foreign consular representation in the former Baltic States.

Tallinn, Riga and Kaunas advised.

Thurston
  1. Vasily Alexeyevich Valkov.↩
  2. Charles E. Dickerson, Jr., Consul and First Secretary of the American Embassy in the Soviet Union.↩
  3. Angus Ivan Ward, Consul, First Secretary, and Chief of Consular Section of the American Embassy in the Soviet Union.↩