The Archive · 1939

Split in Berlin Qver Sail for South Finland's War

Marshal Goering Opposed to — Recognizing New Regime

Paris, Dec, 9.

Lively differences of opinion between Herr von Ribbentrop, ihe Reich Foreign Minister, and Marshal Hermann Goering, occurred over the attitude which Germany was to adopt towards the Soviet-Finnish dispute, according to reliable reports received here; While the Foreign Minister was said -|to'have pressed for the recognition of the Kuusinnen "people's Democratic Government" of Terijoki; Marshal Goering violently opposed this move with the result that Herr Hitler did not give in to von Ribbentrop's wish in this conneétion.—Havas.

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