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

File No. 763.72/8732

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

[Telegram]

Petrograd, January 31, 1918, 6 p.m.
[Received February 3, 4.11 a.m.]

2309. Your 2014. French Ambassador informs us that he received no instructions from his Government to protest against retaliatory measures against Rumanian subjects in Russia. As he of course participated in joint protest of Diplomatic Corps against arrest of Rumanian Minister and as the latter has now been expelled from Russia¹ further action or protest appears to be useless.

Francis

1. For the further developments in relations between Russia and Rumania, see vol. ii, chap. v.