Office of the Historian

760D.61/1675: Telegram

The Minister in Sweden (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Stockholm, September 14, 1943—7 p.m.
[Received September 15—12:13 a.m.]

2945. Boheman told me this afternoon in confidence that the Finns about 3 weeks ago through Soviet Chargé d’Affaires in Stockholm made a bid for peace with Russia on basis of 1939 frontiers but leaving all islands in Gulf of Finland in Soviet possession, and offering rectification of frontier in Karelian Isthmus, exact line not specified. Boheman said he was not at liberty to tell me channel of communication between Finns and Soviet Legation. No reply or acknowledgment has yet been received from Moscow.27

Johnson
  1. In telegram No. 1138, September 29, 4 p.m., the Chargé in Finland reported that the Finnish Government early in August established direct contact with the Soviet Government with a view to concluding peace but that the Soviet Government turned down the terms proposed by the Finns as “preposterous” (740.00119 European War 1939/1791).↩