Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Russia, Volume III

File No. 811.142/5947

The Chargé in Sweden ( Whitehouse ) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Stockholm , October 12, 1918, 5 p.m.
[Received October 13, 4.13 a.m.]

2987. For American Red Cross from Webster:

4. Referring my No. 2.² Sending of food into Petrograd for small children will create very favorable impression among Russian population toward America and will not aid Bolsheviks in resisting Allies. This will, to some extent, alleviate moral responsibility falling upon Allies on account great suffering caused by cutting off food supply and delayed relief due to war operations intervening.

Whitehouse

2. Not printed.