Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Russia, Volume I

File No. 861.00/985

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan ( Morris)

[Telegram]

Washington, January 29, 1918, 7 p.m.

Answering your January 22, 7 p.m., you may advise the Japanese Government:

(1) That this Government has not been approached in regard to sending Bolshevik envoys to replace Russian representatives now in this country and will probably not be in a position to receive envoys from Russia until it establishes relations with a government at Petrograd.

(2) That the attitude of this Government and the people of the United States towards Russia is expressed in the President’s address to Congress and indicates a settled purpose to assist the Russian people which is not contingent upon the acts of authorities in Russia not recognized officially by the United States.

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