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  Selected Secret Documents from Soviet Foreign Policy Documents Archives - 1919 to 1941

Concentrated on 1st and  2nd WW Correspondence and Meetings related to Turkey, Balkans and Iran, with some additions from Afghanistan and India.

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Telegram of the peopleʹs commissioner for foreign affairs of the USSR m. M. Litvinov to the temporary attorney in the affairs of the

USSR in Turkey o. I. Nikitnikova

April 17, 1939 top secret

Please ask Saracoglu to convey on behalf of comrade Molotov his sincere gratitude to Inonu for his prompt reply and his attitude to our proposal *. Then state that we offered Tbilisi or Batumi solely in the interests of the Turkish representativeʹs convenience, to shorten his path, and also because the secrecy of the meetings there could be maximally ensured. We would, however, warmly welcome Saracoglu to Moscow and ask him to come.

Apaydin did not tell us anything about the negotiations between England and France with Turkey, about something like an alliance, and about the Turkish answer you reported in your telegram of April 16, 1939 **, about the need to involve the USSR.

Litvinov

Wua rf, f 059, on I, n 294, d 2029, l 83