The United States' <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Secretary_of_State" id="mwlw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Under Secretary of State">Under Secretary of State</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumner_Welles" id="mwmA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sumner Welles">Sumner Welles</a> issues a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welles_Declaration" id="mwmQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Welles Declaration">declaration</a> on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" id="mwmg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> annexation and incorporation of three <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_states" id="mwmw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Baltic states">Baltic states</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia" id="mwnA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Estonia">Estonia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia" id="mwnQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Latvia">Latvia</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania" id="mwng" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lithuania">Lithuania</a>.