Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, The Paris Peace Conference, 1919, Volume II

862.01/9: Telegram

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

Paris , January 11, 1919—11 p.m.
[Received January 12—1:47 a.m.]

6717. Your 6859, January 6th, 3 p.m. Learn informally from Foreign Office that Marshal Foch will permit the elections in that part of the Palatinate occupied by the army of France on condition that it cannot be used as a pretext for excessive increase of communications between occupied and unoccupied territory and that the elections do not provoke disorders.

Bliss