Office of the Historian

861.01/2198: Telegram

The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Thurston) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, August 4, 1940.
[Received August 4—10:43 a.m.]

957. The Supreme Soviet yesterday passed a law stating that it had resolved “to satisfy the request of the Seim of Lithuania and to admit the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a constituent Soviet Socialist Republic possessing equal rights”.

Action with respect to Estonia and Latvia presumably will be taken at meetings next week.99

Thurston
  1. The Chargé in the Soviet Union informed the Department in telegram No. 972, August 6 (861.01/2199), and in telegram No. 980, August 7 (860I.01/73), that the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union had similarly resolved to admit Latvia into the Soviet Union on August 6, and Estonia on August 7.↩