File No. 861.00/7413
The British Ambassador (Reading) to the Secretary of State
[July 12, 1918]
[A copy of the following paraphrase of a telegram was handed by the
Ambassador to the Counselor for the Department of State on July 12,
1918:]
The British Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs (Balfour) to the Ambassador at
Washington
Czechs at Vladivostok. We trust that the United States Government
will give authority to the U. S. S. Brooklyn to support the Czechs in case of necessity.
Without going into the wider question of Allied intervention, it
is certain that a most serious effect would everywhere be
produced if the Czechs at Vladivostok were to suffer a collapse
which could in any way be attributed to a failure on the part of
the Allies to give them support.
