The Archive · 1940

M. Stalin's Latest Peace Offer

London Paper Claims to Have Photostatic Copy Of Basis of Parleys

London, Mar. 2.

The Amsterdam correspondent of the "Daily Express" reported today that he was in possession of a pnotostatic copy of Stalin's latest peace conditions which the Soviet dictator is prepared to discuss with the Finnish Government once his troops have cag-tured Viipuri.

The following ate the main points Phew Russo-Finnish border the ce plan:

would be traced om the Russian side of Viipuri in order to leave the main fortified positions of the Mannerheim Line in the hands of the Russians.

2, The forts of Koivisto Island and other Finnish coastal batteries between Viipuri and the former border would be givéh to the Russians.

3. The following islands would be-dome Russian: Hogland, Lavansari, and Seiskari, all in the Gulf of Finland.

4. Russia would control the port of Petsamo foratleastten years, A new frontier in the North would be traced through Nautsi, 5. The: Finnish Government would have to be reshuffled in order that Stalin may assert to his people that he did not negotiate with the plutocratic Government.

Diplomatic negotiations are said to have been entered upon on this basis but are being shrouded in secrecy.

The important fact in these demands is that Stalin is not insisting upon "Finland's Gibraltar," Hangoe, and has given up his idea of forming the "Kuusinen" revolutionary Government.

The correspondent added that bolb Swedish and German diplomats making every effort to have Kremlin negotiate peace with Finns. The Swedes, it is said, playing the principal part in negotiations Haya, the the are the

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