The State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker) to German Missions

Telegram

BERLIN, December 2, 1939.
Pol. VI 2651

In your conversations regarding the Finnish-Russian conflict please avoid any anti-Russian note.
According to whom you are addressing, the following arguments are to be employed: The inescapable course of events in the revision of the treaties following the last Great War. The natural requirement of Russia for increased security of Leningrad and the entrance to the Gulf of Finland. The foreign policy pursued by the Finnish Government has in the last few years stressed the idea of neutrality. It has relied on the Scandinavian states and has treated German-Russian opposition as axiomatic. As a result Finland has avoided any rapprochement with Germany and has even rejected the conclusion of a non-aggression pact with Germany as compromising, even though Finland has a non-aggression pact with Russia. Also in the League of Nations, Finland, in spite of the debt of gratitude which she owed to Germany for the latter's help in 1918, has never come out for German interests. Foreign Minister Holsti is typical of this point of view and particularly hostile to Germany. Extensive elements in Finland emphasize their economic and ideological orientation in the direction of democratic England. Correspondingly the attitude of most of the organs of the press is out-spokenly unfriendly to us. The platonic sympathy of England has confirmed Finland in her previous attitude and has done the country no good.
WEIZSÄCKER

Original source http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm

 

I want to reply to my own post.

Finns were desperate to get help from Germany, as they had in 1918.

;D No good country then, 18 months later, best friend. Finns took help where ever they got, politically as neutral country.

Not true also.

I love these propaganda letters, they have so much in that is not written.

Comments please, I would like to hear what do you think about that telegram.

 

Higge....LMAO.......

Thats the first time I have seen anybody CRITICIZE his own post!!!!

Worthy of Monty Python...............still laughing.....got to be a first for the INTERNET!!!

 

Seriously though......I agree WHOLEHEARTEDLY that it shows Finland's NEUTRALITY in matters of international power politics....

It also shows how Germany came to the conference table with Finland....FOR THEIR OWN ENDS......
Stalin had his own record of two-faced diplomacy, so maybe the Germans realized the Finns could be HELPFUL after all.....
I think this is more revealing of GERMAN politcs and intentions......They were not very helpful at all during the winter War when Finland stood firm against the Soviet Bear......

 

;D;D;D

Hehee, I just read my first post again.

That was not written by me originally.. I forgot to add original source.

But yes, seems like I'm fighting with myself LOL