The Archive · 1940

Soviet State

Twenty Delegates Attend Supreme Council Meet

Moscow, Aug. 6.

The Supreme Soviet Council last night unanimously voted to admit Latvia into the Soviet Union.

The council met at 6.15 last night with M. Josef Stalin, M. Viacheslav Molotov, the Foreign Commissar, and Baltic diplomats attending. The chairman requested the 20 Latvian delegates, many of them in national dress, to advance to the rostrum cing the deputies. ting President read the tion for incorporation into the Soviet Union. The request then approved of unanimously The Council adjourned until 6 pin. ioday.—United Press Former Premier Held In Burma

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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