File No. 763.72/5870
The Acting Secretary of State to the French Ambassador ( Jusserand)
Excellency: Referring to your note of June 26, 1917,1 with regard to the necessity of constituting at Paris an international committee to study matters connected with the transportation question in France and to your suggestion that an American agent be designated to represent this Government on that committee, I have the honor to inform you that a letter has been received on this subject from the Secretary of War stating that Col. Harry Taylor, U. S. Corps of Engineers, who is now with General Pershing, has been designated as the American member of the commission. The Secretary of War also states that Colonel Taylor has been so advised by cable.
Accept [etc.]