701.60D11/582½
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Secretary of State (Berle)
The Finnish Minister came in, at his request.
He said that, in conformity with our request, he has discontinued the work of the Finnish Military and Naval Attachés, and the only other Finnish national employed in the office of the Military Attaché.
The Minister said that he had not yet decided exactly what to do with them, and angled slightly for an expression of opinion on my part that they might as well be kept here, or nearby, because “we [Page 286] might need them here later and might need our own Military Attaché in Helsinki later.” I said I could not see that far ahead, and that I thought it would be well for him to get them out pretty soon.