SOVIET'S TERMS
TRADE NEGOTIATIONS STATUS OF BALTIC STATES BRITAIN'S PROPOSALS (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, Sept. 17. (Received Sept. 18. at 0.15 a.m.) The Soviet is. insisting on recognition of the Baltic States as part of the Soviet Union before negotiating a comprehensive trade pact with Britain. The Financial News points out that the problem revolves around the question of the release of gold belonging to the former Estonian, Lithuanian and Latvian central banks which was impounded in London, and the release of Estonian and Latvian ships now held in British ports. It is understood that I lie Foreign Secretary (Lord Halifax) proposed to the Russian Ambassador (M. Maisky). that if the question of the sovereignty of the Baltic StatPs were left in abeyance the value of the Baltic States' gold and the British claims against those countries could be regarded as cancelling out one another, while if the Soviet agreed to general trade talks, amicable arrangement could be reached regarding the detained ships. The negotiations are believed to be continuing, but the proscects of an early agreement are not considered rosv.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24406, 18 September 1940, Page 7
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184SOVIET'S TERMS Otago Daily Times, Issue 24406, 18 September 1940, Page 7
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