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File No. 861.48/102

The Chargé in Russia (Dearing) to the Secretary of State 1

[Telegram]
Petrograd, April 25, 1916, 1 p. m.
[Received April 27, 1.45 p. m.]

517. Owing to delay, your 788 received 24th. Minister of Foreign Affairs informed me during a conversation that attitude of Russian Government toward the Rockefeller Foundation’s plans of relief work in Poland was most favorable and spoke in appreciation of Walcott and Foundation’s enterprise. I only asked for information and made no representations.

Dearing
  1. Repeated to the Ambassador in Great Britain in telegram No. 3267, May 1, 1916, with instruction to ascertain the attitude of the British Government.↩