Office of the Historian

860D.00/1004: Telegram

The Minister in Finland (Schoenfeld) to the Secretary of State

Helsinki, December 7, 1942—6 p.m.
[Received December 8—8:35 a.m.]

1202. Source83 mentioned in my 1201 today79 said he thought Witting would be held in office as long as Finland’s relationship of co-belligerency with Germany continued. He admitted that there would be slight chance of rapprochement with us so long as Foreign Office [Page 106] remained under Witting and Pakaslahti.… He added that former prohibition on Foreign Office officials seeing members of this Legation had recently been lifted. We reminded him that it took two to make a party and that Foreign Office officials were not being invited by us except rarely. Our friend said “the Finns have had more good luck than good ideas in matters of foreign policy”. He seemed to think there was now neither good luck nor good ideas.

Schoenfeld
  1. The source of information was described as a “well informed member of Social Democratic Party” of Finland.↩
  2. Not printed.↩