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The General Director of the Foreign Section of the Committee on Public Information (Sisson) to the Secretary of State
My Dear Mr. Secretary: I would suggest that Mr. Poole be instructed to place himself in the keeping of the Swedish Consul, and to have Mr. Wardwell and Mr. Andrews do the same, provided he and they cannot get out of the Bolshevick area.
That publication will add anything to their present peril is difficult to conceive.
You will put them in actual danger of being connected with the exposure (in which they have no part whatever) by pointing them out as your reason for urging an abnormal action.
A story that has been in the newspaper offices of the country for 24 hours cannot be suppressed by normal means.
My knowledge of London-Washington conference is confined to the fact that I asked permission to turn over to the British Government the part of my material it lacked, and that by your order to Ambassador Page and to me, I was not permitted to do so. I am,
Very sincerely,