311.6124/63: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Commissioner at Riga (Young)
Your 42, June 21, 2 p.m.
Proposed deportees have all been given fair trial and, after due process of law in which at their request they have been permitted to [Page 699] have counsel and witnesses, were adjudged subject to deportation under American law. Inform Esthonian authorities that Department of Labor is informed considerable number of these aliens of their own free will have expressed desire to be returned to Soviet Russia and are now clamoring for that privilege. However, as they are being deported under accepted principles of international law and in accordance with our own laws, this Government, while it would appreciate cooperation of Esthonian authorities, cannot consent to condition quoted in your 42.
Report promptly result of above representations.