Office of the Historian

860I.00/446: Telegram

The Chargé in Estonia (Leonard) to the Secretary of State

Tallinn, July 23, 1940—11 a.m.
[Received 11:25 a.m.]

100. The text of the declaration of entry of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic into the Union with the U. S. S. R. was read to Parliament by the Foreign Minister and passed 2:11 p.m. yesterday. The text as reported in today’s press follows:

“To request that the Supreme Soviet of the U. S. S. R. receive the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic as a union republic into membership with the U. S. S. R. on the same basis with the U. S. S. R. as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, and other union republics.

Long live Soviet Estonia.

Long live the U. S. S. R.”

Leonard