DEPARTMENT OF STATE 
 
      THE SECRETARY
 
      December 5, 1941
 
      
 
 
At 7:20 p.m. an announcement in the following sense was broadcast 
      from London:
 
      
 
 
In as much as the British Government has not received satisfactory 
      replies to its notes to He1sinki, Budapest and Bucharest demanding 
      that hostilities against Russia cease by December 5th, messages 
      are being sent to the Governments of Finland, Hungary and Rumania 
      declaring that a state of war exists.
 
      
 
 
The Official British announcement added that a state of war 
      does not yet exist and will not until de1ivery of the messages 
      to the three capitals through the same channel that the original 
      notes were sent (that is, through the United States Department 
      of State and the American Ministers in the three capitals).
 
      
 
 
S:WBSale