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

File No. 763.72119/786

The Minister in Sweden ( Morris) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Stockholm, August 30, 1917, 5 p.m.
[Received August 31, 2.15 a.m.]

697. My 672.¹ Axelrod, leader of Internationalist section of Mensheviki and one of the Russian leaders of the Stockholm Socialists’ Conference, has said in part:

America is endangering future of humane culture by preventing peace. If the President does not permit American delegates come to Stockholm he will indicate that his country is more reactionary than despotic Germany.

Morris

1. Not printed.