Office of the Historian

File No. 861.00/1348

The Consul General at Moscow ( Summers) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Moscow, March 20, 1918, 7 p.m.
[Received March 22, 9.55 a.m.]

279. The Patriarch of Russia has refused to sanction the peace treaty and condemns same in strongest terms. American attitude will greatly influence peasants especially. Inform Mr. Crane.

Summers