Office of the Historian

311.6124/68: Telegram

The Commissioner at Riga (Young) to the Secretary of State

Riga, July 6, 1920—5 p.m.
[Received July 8—12:55 a.m.]

59. Department’s June 28, 8 p.m. Esthonian authorities had prior to resignation Cabinet verbally agreed to all our requests and had unofficially sounded Gukovsky77 who stated he felt certain that all true Communists, Socialists among deportees would be admitted but criminals like some of those deported by the United States through Finland would be denied admission and that Soviet Government might require approval of Martens.78

Young
  1. I. E. Gukovsky, chief plenipotentiary of the Soviet delegations in Reval.↩
  2. See pp. 455 ff.↩