Just to remind readers that Acting President Uluots did not appoint August Rei as his successor to head the exiled government. It has been reported that Rei was not even sworn in as cabinet minister by Uluots as was required by the Constitutionit. Rei, at that time already in Sweden, had been appointed minister of foreign afffairs in Otto Tiefs government of 18 September 1944 and assumed the leadership position pursuant to the provision of Estonian Constitution that in the absence of the prime minister and an acting prime minister the eldest member of the cabinet takes over as the acting prime minister.
Väino J. Riismandel,
Maryland, USA