Office of the Historian

124.60P3/237: Telegram

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

Washington, August 31, 1940—3 p.m.

500. If situation referred to in Riga’s 337, August 29, 5 p.m., is unchanged, please bring matter at once to attention of Foreign Office and state that your Government expects that the members in question of the staffs of the Baltic missions shall be permitted without delay and without payment of export duties or fees or without obstruction of any kind, to export all of their household and personal effects. Keep Department informed.37

Repeat to Riga, Tallinn and Kaunas.

Hull
  1. In telegram No. 1121, September 6, 6 p.m., the Chargé in the Soviet Union stated that he had made “emphatic representations based literally upon” Department’s telegram No. 500. (124.60P3/241)↩