File No. 811.142/2800
The Ambassador in Russia ( Francis ) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 28, 11.31 p.m.]
2141. Following message signed “Robins”1 for committee on Red Cross:
December 26. State Department’s 1920, December 21.2 Please urge upon the President the necessity of our continued intercourse with Bolshevik government. Otherwise impossible to arrange for transportation and distribution of supplies, particularly milk. Ambassador approves this statement and has advised State Department to the same effect. Alleged statement of Trotsky, quoted in your message, untrue. Statement made by me to Trotsky was from your cables regarding shipment of supplies.
Please note my approval as stated above.
- Lieut. Col. Raymond Robins, in charge of the American Red Cross Commission to Russia.↩
- Not printed; cf. Department’s telegrams No. 1883, Dec. 6, and No. 1917, Dec. 20, and the Ambassador’s telegram No. 2091, Dec. 11, vol. i, pp. 289, 319, and 301.↩