Office of the Historian

740.0011 European War 1939/6082: Telegram

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

Moscow, October 16, 1940—7 p.m.
[Received 8:30 p.m.]

1355. The press today publishes a Tass communiqué denying as “not in accordance with the facts” a report stated to have appeared in the Danish newspaper under [sic] Politiken from its Berlin correspondent to the effect that the Soviet Government was informed “in due time that German forces were to be sent to Rumania and that the Kremlin was informed as to the stand of these forces and as to the purposes for which they were sent to Rumania.”36

Repeated to Berlin and Bucharest.

Steinhardt
  1. With regard to the presence of German troops in Rumania, see telegrams Nos. 579, October 7, 6 p.m., and 585, October 9, 5 p.m., from the Minister in Rumania, pp. 519 and 520, respectively.↩