File No. 763.72/8513
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Russia ( Francis)
[Telegram]
Washington,
January 18, 1918, 4 p.m.
1998. Referring Department’s 1924, December 22, 4 p.m.,2 British Embassy states that British Government concurs generally in the course suggested but assumes, however, that it is not intended that the diplomatic representatives of the various governments at Petrograd should in no circumstances take independent action. The Department concurs.
Polk