763.72119/855½a
The Secretary of State to
President Wilson
Washington,
September 10, 1917
.
Dear Mr. President: I beg to send you enclosed a
copy of a telegram from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia to the
Russian Ambassador in Washington, which was handed to the Department by the
Ambassador a few days ago.
With assurances [etc.]
[Enclosure—Telegram]
The Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs
(Tereshchenko) to the Russian
Ambassador (Bakhmeteff)
Petrograd,
August 21/September
3[, 1917.]
President Wilson’s reply to the Peace Note of the Pope27 was met in
Russia with the greatest sympathy, and has been commented [on] in that
spirit by the whole press, except only by the extremist organs.
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The Provisional Government notices with the sincerest gratification that
the principles on which the President’s answer was based fully coincide
with the precepts adopted by the new Russia in her exterior policy. In
this unity of ideas existing between ourselves and the great American
Republic, we see the valuable pledge to our mutual cooperation in
elucidating the aims of the present war, as well as in adopting a common
political course.
Kindly transmit this first impression to the Government to which you are
accredited, and also convey that at the present moment we are
elaborating the project of a declaration in which will be stated the
solidarity of the Provisional Government with the ideas expressed in the
President’s note.
