711.60D/232: Telegram
The Chargé in Finland (McClintock) to the Secretary of State
[Received 1:39 p.m.]
784. The Swiss Minister last night told me he and his wife had lunched alone with President and Mrs. Ryti on June 1. Mr. Egger said he had asked the President about relations with the United States. Ryti replied that Finland could do nothing; that its fate rested with the decision of the great powers. As for the United States it might, [Page 280] if it wanted to please the Russians, acquiesce in the USSR doing what it wished with Finland. The President concluded by saying “The Americans have offered us only words. The Germans have given us bread”. In this brief description you have a precisely accurate picture of the frame of mind which now dominates the makers of policy in this country.