English Translation

3 5 the signing within 4 hours. Only with great difficulty did the Finns manage to delay the decision by the next day 1 2 o'clock. Then came the 6 o'clock early meeting of the Pinnische Reichstag, in which the acceptance of the contract was achieved, especially since the Finnish envoy in Stockholm Gripenberg on the same morning with a declaration by the Swedish government erachien, according to which Sweden agreed to secure the Finnish supply of a loan of 350 million kroner upon the adoption of the treaty. Sweden undertook to supply 150,000 tonnes of cereals and fats for human consumption and industry, among other things, until 1 March 1945. In addition, Mannerheim received a Sehreiben Churchills, in which he expressed that in view of the war situation Finland would be given the Council to speed up a cease-fire, since this was the last possibility at all to obtain a n-dependent Finland, otherwise the Soviets would have to expect an early military occupation of Finland. The Finnish government decided to sign the Vertreg in Moscow. It must be noted that the last reasons for this decision were the allegedly imminent military collapse of the empire and the offered Swedish support. The development of the last few weeks, however, has already matured with a large part of the Finnish people the realization that this step of Mannerheim or the government was wrong, but at least too early. The collapse of the empire remained unfulfilled, and Churchill's Lower House statement that the Finnish people are expected to do so last week has only confirmed the view that the government has lost its nerve. It must also be noted that the Finnish authorities have shown themselves in relation to the Reichsdeutschen in Pinnland dd dd , in particular the Germans were not hindered, but on the contrary asked to remain in Finland. Among other things, the German representative of the Omnipol in Helsinki was only on l8.9. with his pamilie of Helsinki.