Germany's MINISTRY for Chechnya and Moravia, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1023, sig. 110-10/27 (damaged)

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The Commission has proposed to the Council that it should be able to take the necessary steps to ensure that it does not lose sight of the fact that it has followed a symbolic tweeke as well. The Finns were then treated first with 9 points of the ceasefire- thus became also the most important southern Finnish railway line both the troops in central Finland, as well as in northern Finland Molotov then gave afterwards the further 14 points circumstances still seemed exultant, except for the cession of the city area from Helsinki to the area of the middle and but also the Aalands Islands. When Molotov was still far too early and instead led the delegation to the Moscow Opera, which performed "Wilhelm Tell" that day. This operatic performance should not only be a demonstrative area of Porkkala, which according to its entire geographical demarcation of this area was so chosen that not only a counter-proposal is submitted to the Soviets, but instead of the area of porkkala the area from Hangö, as interrupted from Helsinki to Tørku and the two best southern Finnish roads. About the area of Porkkala after the war 1939/l940 the Soviets rejected this exchange. Darsufhin extended the Finns their counter-foreseement to this, not only the territory of Hangö, which Soviets would go back into the offensive. In this context it must be remembered that since the 2.9. In the first day it stated that it had also announced for negotiations of the Finns in Moscow the stroke of Hackzell to accept the Russian conditions, otherwise it had to be a dolchstoss against the heart of Finland under the prevailing situation. As a result, the Finnish government immediately had an up-to-date, albeit cool courteousness, punched his fist on the table and asked if the Finns had come to Moscow to deal with him, or if they were ready to do so. In the course of the Moscow stay, the cable also went to Tárgu and Sweden. were already on the march back.