Office of the Historian

862.01/8: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in France ( Bliss )19

Washington , January 6, 1919—3 p.m.

6859. Please obtain views of Foreign Office and consult with Mission concerning the following from Berne.

“Have received note from Swiss Political Department enclosing note from Bavarian Legation, Berne, of which following is substance, ‘Bavarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs requests that in Palatinate, elections on January 12th, 1919, for National Assembly be made possible and facilitated by Entente’. Stovall.”

Polk
  1. Similar telegram sent to Great Britain, Jan. 6, 3 p.m., as Department’s No. 3804.↩