File No. 763.72/7528
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Russia ( Francis)
[Telegram]
Washington,
November 2, 1917, 3 p.m.
1819. Your 1913, October 26, 7 p.m. Your statement that Paris conference is looked upon in Petrograd as a peace meeting. Conference is one to discuss vigorous and successful prosecution of the war and not to discuss peace terms or war settlements. You may so state to officials if they labor under any misapprehension and publicly if necessary.
Lansing