File No. 033.5111/2
The Secretary of State to the French Ambassador ( Jusserand )
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 15th instant,1 relative to the visit to the United States of Mr. André Tardieu, Deputy, in the capacity of High Commissioner of the French Government, in charge of the centralization of the various French technical missions to this country.
In reply I have the honor to say that translations of your note were communicated to the Secretaries of War, the Navy, Treasury, Agriculture, and Commerce, and to the United States Shipping Board, for their information.
Mr. Tardieu arrived some days ago, and was accorded courtesies at the port of arrival, but the Department was not advised of the date of his arrival and it could not extend any further courtesies because of that fact.
Accept [etc.]
[Telegram of May 21, 1917, from the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the reconstructed Russian Provisional Government (Tereshchenko) to the Secretary of State, conveying assurance of “full solidarity” with the United States in carrying on the war “to secure the freedom of nations and achieve universal lasting peace effectively guaranteed against all later attack,” and the Secretary’s reply of May 26, expressing gratification at this assurance and emphasizing the importance of continuing the common effort to “defeat the designs and machinations of the German autocratic Government,” are printed in Foreign Relations, 1918, Russia, Volume I, pages 74, 85.]