Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1943, The British Commonwealth, Eastern Europe, the Far East, Volume III

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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Under Secretary of State (Welles)

[Washington,] April 24, 1943.

The Soviet Ambassador⁶⁶ called to see me this afternoon. I informed the Ambassador that this Government would make public the breaking of relations between the United States and Finland in the immediate future, and that if the note conveying that communication to the Finnish Government could not be delivered tomorrow, Easter Sunday, on account of the holiday, it would be delivered on the following day and a public statement would then be made in Washington with regard to the reasons therefor.

S[umner] W[elles]

66. Maxim Maximovich Litvinov.