740.0011 European War 1939/4561: Telegram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Thurston) to the Secretary of State
[Received 2:31 p.m.]
837. Pravda today publishes the following:
“In view of the liberation of Bessarabia from occupation by Rumanian noblemen and its reunion with the Soviet Union the Moldavian population within the U. S. S. R. has considerably increased and now amounts to about 2,000,000 people.
In connection with these circumstances the Soviet of People’s Commissars of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist and Moldavian Oblast Committee of the Ukraine Communist Party have presented to the Soviet of People’s Commissars and the Central Committee of the Communist Party a proposal to reunite the Moldavian population of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and to form a Moldavian Constituent Soviet Socialist Republic. The Soviet of People’s Commissars of the U. S. S. R. and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party have given their support to the request of the Moldavian organizations and have decided to present the appropriate proposal to the Supreme Soviet of the U. S. S. R.”