860D.20211/18
The Finnish Chargé (Vahervuori) to the Secretary of State
The Chargé d’Affaires a. i. of Finland presents his compliments to His Excellency The Honorable The Secretary of State and has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of His Excellency’s note of December 26th, 1942,2 which was received at the office of the Finnish Legation on December 28th at 4:30 p.m., regarding His Excellency’s initiative to cease immediately the distribution of information of all types by the American Legation in Helsinki to the Finnish public.
His Excellency further requests in the note the Chargé d’Affaires to have stopped immediately any further activities of the Finnish Information Center in New York and of the Finnish Legation’s personnel in the field of releases, pamphlets, public addresses, books, et cetera, specifying further that the Finnish Legation is requested hereafter to make or release no statements for public consumption in the United States except such oral statements as may be required to reply to specific inquiries from American press representatives.
Having duly noted the contents of the said note the Chargé d’Affaires has brought the same to the attention of the Finnish Information Center in New York as far as that office is concerned, which, complying with the request, has discontinued its activities as from December 29th.
- Not printed, but see telegram No. 240, December 23, 1942, to the Chargé in Finland, ibid., p. 115.↩