760D.61/1620
The British Embassy to the Department of State
Aide-Mémoire
The British Minister at Stockholm22 has learnt from his Soviet colleague23 that she has informed the Finnish Government through unofficial Swedish channels that she would be prepared to enter into contact with them and has hinted that Finland might expect more favourable terms now than later. The Soviet Minister has expressed [Page 29] a wish that these contacts should be kept strictly secret for the time being.24
Washington
, 20
January, 1942.
- Victor Alexander Louis Mallet.↩
- Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontay.↩
- In another aide-mémoire of February 4, 1942, the British Embassy reported that Mme. Kollontay had no further information on establishing contact with the Finns, and no serious approach on the part of the Finnish Government to the Allies was considered likely (760D.61/1621).↩