File No. 763.72119/580
The Ambassador in Russia ( Francis) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 26, 11.55 a.m.]
1225. Your 1321, 16th.1 Minister for Foreign Affairs to-day requested following response be transmitted to signatories of message therein:
The Russian Provisional Government is very appreciative of the sympathy which the authorized representatives of American Jewish citizens are so good as to accord to its efforts to assure the triumph of the great principles of democracy, of liberty, and of equality of all Russian citizens without distinction of nationality or religion.
As regards the uncertainty shown by the American Jewry on account of the rumors of agitation of certain elements for a separate peace I can assure them that these rumors are wholly without foundation: no Russian party, whatever its political programme, has contemplated nor could contemplate the eventuality of a separate peace with the foreign aggressor.
The great danger which menaces new Russia and the entire world if heed should be paid to the efforts which have for their end the maintenance of the fearful German militarism are only too well known here.