The Archive · 1940

Statement on Policy Expected

Moscow, Mar. 15.

The Supreme Soviet Council will convene on March 29 and it was expected that the Foreign Commissar, M. Viacheslav Molotov, would report on the Soviet-Finnish peace pact and make a declaration of Soviet foreign policy, it was learned here last night.

The "Red Star" the Red Army organ, reported that Finland's sovereignty had not been encroached upon by the peace treaty. "Regardless of the form of her Government, we consider Finland an independent, sovereign state," the newspaper declared. "The peace pact has strengthened respect for Finland's sovereignty The Soviet Union lacks expansionist ambitions."—United Press.

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