The Archive · 1939

Baltic Ministers

Visit Moscow — Lithuania and Latvia Follow Path Enforced Upon Esthonian State

Moscow, Oct. 3.

Moscow has become the mecca of statesmen of Baltic nations following Russia's reported desire to conclude Pacts either of mutual assistance or Son-aggression with Lithuania, Latvia and Finland.

M. Vilhelms Munters, the Latvian Foreign Maister, arrived here last evening, while the Lithuanian Foreign Minister, M. Ian Urbshis, is expected to ive some time today in Tesponse i2 an invitation from M. Viacheslav Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Commissar.

M. Munters was accompanied by [the Director of the Latvian Treaty Department, the Soviet Minister in Riga, and the Soviet commercial representative. Soviet Russia is said to have offered the Lithuanian Government a noa-aggression treaty without military clauses, and the Latvian Government a pact of mutual assistance.

Pending the arrival of M. Urbshis, the Lithuanian Minister in Moscow is reported to have been ordered by his Government to start negotiations immediately on the basis of the Soviet offer.—Reuier.

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