Office of the Historian

740.00119 European War 1939/1963: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Finland (McClintock)

Washington, November 17, 1943—9 p.m.

161. In reply to questions from the press we are stating that your transfer from Helsinki is purely routine, has no political implication and has been under consideration for some time. We are pointing out that you are being replaced by a third secretary now assigned to Stockholm.43 Your 1274, November 16, paragraph 3.

Hull
  1. In telegrams No. 172 and No. 1361, both dated December 13, 1943, the Department informed the Legations at Helsinki and Stockholm, respectively, that Edmund A. Gullion, then serving as Third Secretary of Embassy in the United Kingdom, had been designated Third Secretary of Legation in Finland to succeed McClintock as Chargé on or about January 1, 1944 (123 West, G. Lybrook/127).↩