763.72116/532
The Secretary of State to President Wilson
My Dear Mr. President: In connection with the appeal of the International Committee of the Red Cross,71 concerning which I spoke to you yesterday, together with Secretary Baker—whose Department is opposed to any such arrangement—I send you herewith a draft of a communication which I had then prepared for transmission to our Embassies at London, Paris and Rome.72
Upon returning to the Department I found that Mr. Barclay of the British Embassy had seen Mr. Phillips and under instructions from his Government orally asked whether the appeal of the International Committee should not be answered in identic terms and also whether we would not agree that the reply be framed in Paris.
Pursuant to Mr. Barclay’s communication I propose sending the enclosed telegram to Paris, before sending out the one which is directed to London.
[Page 103]Will you kindly indicate your wishes in the matter?
Faithfully yours,
- See telegram of Feb. 11, 1918, from the Chargé in Switzerland, Foreign Relations, 1918, supp. 2, p. 779.↩
- Not printed; for the telegram as sent, see ibid., p. 781.↩