Office of the Historian

File No. 861.00/1960

The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Irkutsk (Harris)1

[Telegram]
Washington, June 20, 1918, 5 p.m.

Your telegram, 28th, and two telegrams, 30th, practically unintelligible.3 This Government not prepared to recognize Bolshevik authorities or to deal with them officially. Department approves your actions so far as reported. Sending code as soon as practicable.

Lansing
  1. Senat via the Legation in China.↩
  2. See footnote 2, ante, p. 184.↩