840.51 Frozen Credits/481: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in the Soviet Union (Thurston)
Washington, August 22,
1940—6 p.m.
473. Your 1049, August 21, 5 p.m. You are authorized to replace the phrase “which at present are wholly or in part under occupation by Soviet armed forces” by the phrase “under the control of Soviet civil and military authorities” and to return the note to the Commissar or Assistant Commissar.
Welles