PAP                      LONDON
This telegram must be 
closely paraphrased be-       Dated August 25, 1939
fore being communicated 
to anyone. (A)           Rec'd 2:50 p.m.
 
 
Secretary of State 
 
     Washington
 
     
     1254, August 25, 7 p.m.
 
     STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
 
     The Turkish Charge d'Affaires Mr. Kadri Rizan has in-
 
formed the Embassy in confidence that he has received following 
 
circumstantial information regarding secret annexes of the 
 
German-Soviet pact which came from trustworthy sources but 
 
which naturally he states with "complete reserve":
 
          (one)     Russia is given a free hand against Japan in the 
 
Far East.
 
          (two)     Probable partition of Poland and recognition of 
 
the special interests of Soviet Russia in the Baltic states: 
 
in effect a return to the Russian-German border of 1914.
 
          (three)   Territorial advantages to Turkey at the ex-
 
pense of Bulgaria and a kind of subprotectorate for Turkey 
 
over whatever is left of Bulgaria.
 
     (four)    Division of the Balkans into spheres of in-
 
 
fluence between Germany and Russia, the German sphere to
 
include Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Greece, the Russian sphere 
 
Rumania and Bulgaria.
 
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