760D.6115/62
The Minister in Finland (Schoenfeld) to the Secretary of State
Sir: With reference to the Legation’s telegram No. 460 of November 6, 1940,74 reporting the signature on November 5 of the definitive boundary protocol fixing the new frontier between Russia and Finland,75 I have the honor to report that the following official communiqué was published in Helsinki on May 11: [Page 27]
“The Central Mixed Boundary Commission of Finland and the Soviet Union has completed its work regarding the survey of the Finno-Soviet boundary as provided for by the Treaty of Peace of March 12, 1940.76 The Governments of Finland and the Soviet Union have ratified the descriptive protocol concerning the survey of the boundary and the maps of the boundary line.”
It is understood that the ratification was effected in Moscow by an exchange of notes on May 10, 1941.
Respectfully yours,
Secretary of Legation
- Foreign Relations, 1940, vol. i, p. 353.↩
- This protocol describing the boundary was signed at Imatra on November 18, 1940, in accordance with the protocol of April 29, 1940. For text of the protocol of November 18, 1940, see Finland, Treaty Series (1941), No. 12, p. 62. Regarding the protocol of April 29, 1940, see telegram No. 478, April 30, 1940, from the Chargé in the Soviet Union, Foreign Relations, 1940, vol. i, p. 328.↩
- Signed at Moscow; for text, see Finland, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, The Finnish Blue Book (Philadelphia, 1940), p. 115; or the translation from the Russian original in Pravda in Department of State Bulletin, April 27, 1940, p. 453.↩