File No. 860d.00/105
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Sweden (Morris)
733. Please report whether following statement alleged to have been made by Mannerheim is authentic: [Page 783]
The Germans’ victorious and mighty army landed in Finland to help against the infamous Bolsheviks, and to help the friendship the Finnish people have always had for the noble Kaiser and mighty German people. Fighting shoulder to shoulder with the great merman army the Finnish army should be imbued with the discipline that has brought that army from victory to victory. I greet the brave German troops and hope that every Finn will realize the great sacrifice of the noble German people who are helping them in an hour when every man is needed on the western front.