Office of the Historian

File No. 861.51/145

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

[Telegram]
Petrograd, May 11, 1917, midnight.
[Received May 13, 7 a.m.]

1275. For Secretary of the Treasury:

[Page 9]

Your 1386 received to-day. May [they?] accept it and Minister for Foreign Affairs says plan entirely satisfactory. Minister of Finance authorized Russian Chargé d’Affaires, Washington, act for Russia until Bakhmeteff1 arrives about June 15.

Francis
  1. Boris A. Bakhmeteff, head of the Russian mission to the United States, and later, July 5, 1917, Ambassador at Washington.↩