File No. 861.00/824
The Ambassador in Russia ( Francis) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 16, 1.20 a.m.]
2100. To-day’s bulletin, official organ of Soviet, says Trotsky in speech at Grenadier Regiment said:
Judson came to us and said that it isn’t true that England is preparing to deprive us of supplies and Colonel Robins said that he had never seen a firmer government. He thinks that his Government will be the first to recognize us and will propose the services of American engineers to regulate the railways and automobiles for the transportation of food supplies. The matter assuredly does not lie in a general love for us but in the fact that America and England on the one hand and America and Japan on the other hand are interested in having us remain a market for their goods.
We have been threatened that Japan, as a punishment for the negotiations, would annex Siberia. But if Japan could take Siberia from us she would do this independently of the war and of the armistice. However, she does not do this because America does not allow it.