740.00119 European War 1939/1560: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Standley) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 5—8:43 a.m.]
1017. Soviet press August 4 published Tass8 denial reading as follows:
“On July 31 the Swedish paper Aftontidningen published an article on Soviet peace conditions with Finland. The conditions in this article reportedly made known by a Soviet diplomat are: the 1940 boundaries on the Karelian Isthmus and the 1939 boundaries in the other regions.
Tass is authorized to state that this announcement is an invention of the feverish imagination of the Aftontidningen and without any foundation.”
- Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union, official communications agency of the Soviet Government.↩