Office of the Historian

38. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Argentina1

Washington, November 5, 1918, 9 p.m.

For Sevier from Sisson. If Germany accepts armistice terms, Committee work of news distribution in foreign countries will still continue throughout period of session of peace conference, as Committee’s service will be the means of interpreting views of Unistates at that conference, where Committee will have staff and distributing facilities. Keep your news distributing organization at high pitch of efficiency.

Lansing
  1. Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Decimal File 1910–1929, Box 735, 103.93/1218e. No classification marking. Blue. Cipher. A stamped notation on the first page reads: “Signed by A.A. Adee.” Also sent to Beijing, Tokyo, Archangel, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Paris, London, The Hague, Lima, Stockholm, Vladivostok, Bern, Mexico City, and Copenhagen. The text of each telegram is identical except those to Rio de Janeiro, Beijing, and Tokyo, in which the final sentence is stricken out.↩