660m.6131/22: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
Moscow, October
17, 1939—5 p.m.
[Received October 17—2:52 p.m.]
[Received October 17—2:52 p.m.]
762. The press today announces the signature on October 15th of a Soviet-Lithuanian trade agreement for 1939–1940. The agreement was signed by People’s Commissar for Foreign Trade Mikoyan and the Lithuanian Minister in Moscow and, according to the account published in the press, the agreement between the two countries will provide for a total turnover of 40,000,000 lits, which will be almost double the present trade.
Repeated to Kaunas.
Steinhardt