740.00119 European War 1939/959: Telegram
The Chargé in the United Kingdom (Matthews) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 16—8:36 p.m.]
1911. I inquired of Mr. Eden this afternoon whether his talks with Maisky with respect to Stalin’s territorial claims were making progress and he replied in the affirmative. He added that he was seeing Maisky again this afternoon and that when he had broached to him yesterday the suggestion that the inhabitants of the Baltic States who wished to do so might be permitted to leave those territories with all their effects (a concession which I gathered we had suggested would be desirable) Maisky had not seemed to think that this would be any [Page 544] stumbling block. Mr. Eden seemed to feel that Stalin has pretty well understood the “delay” and seems satisfied that the talks are now progressing.