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

File No. 763.72119/1250

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

[Telegram]

Petrograd, February 7, 1918, 8 p.m.
[Received February 9, 4.40 a.m.]

2346. Nothing from Brest. Unconfirmed report that separate peace concluded but conditions so outrageous that incredible.

Council by decree signed by “Lenin and five other Commissaries issued to-day changes Russian calendar to accord with ours, taking effect Russia February 1 which decree designates February 14 in Russia.

Patriarch, according to the laws Russian church, has excommunicated all Bolsheviki because of confiscation of church property and violence to clergy.

Francis