Foreign Relations of the United States, The Soviet Union, 1933–1939

660p.6131/89: Telegram

The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, October 19, 1939—noon.
[Received October 19—5:25 a.m.]

771. The press reports the signature today⁵⁶ of an agreement between the Soviet Union and Latvia under the terms of which the total turnover between the two countries will reach 60,000,000 lats, or three times the present amount. Latvia is granted transit rights over Soviet railways and through the ports of Murmansk, Soroka and the Black Sea, and in return grants to the Soviet Union “a wide extension of transit facilities for Soviet goods through Latvian ports.”

Steinhardt

56. Signature apparently took place on October 18, 1939.