Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1917, Supplement 2, The World War, Volume I

File No. 102.1/439

The Delegate to the Inter-Allied Council ( Crosby) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram—Extract]

Paris, December 4, 1917, 8 p.m.
[Received December 6, 4.10 a.m.]

No. 13. For Secretary of the Treasury:

(1) Referring my No. 11. Think very desirable to have authority proceed with organization of two councils as indicated therein. Reading will recommend plan to Bonar Law and expects approval by this. All now recognize absolute interdependence of neutral purchases, international exchange, and our advances to Allies, hence extreme desirability of consideration of all these questions in two central bodies.

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Crosby