File No. 861.00/2595
The Secretary of State to the Consul at Vladivostok (Caldwell)
Your 115, August 29, 4 p.m. This Government does not contemplate the dispatch of a high commissioner and has so informed the French Ambassador in reply to a suggestion that the representative of the United States assume the chairmanship of an inter-Allied board charged, among other duties, with that of safeguarding unity of action towards the Russian people, of deciding political disputes and of defining the attitude between the Allied Governments and local authorities. This Government deems cooperation in any political action unwise and believes it would be as unnecessary as it is undesirable at the present time.