Office of the Historian

File No. 861.00/796a

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Russia ( Francis)

[Telegram]
Washington, December 6, 1917, 2 p.m.

1883. Referring press reports received here last few days concerning communications of Judson with Trotsky relative armistice, President desires American representatives withhold all direct communication with Bolshevik government. So advise Judson and Kerth. Department assumes these instructions being observed by Embassy. Have you received Department telegrams instructing Embassy take no action Nos. 1873, 1874, and 1875, two of them dated November 30, the third dated December 1?2

Lansing
  1. Telegrams Nos. 1873 and 1874, ante, p. 274; telegram No. 1875, ante, p. 254.↩