File No. 861.77/518

The Secretary of State to the Consul at Vladivostok ( Caldwell )

[Telegram]

[For Morris:]

Your October 13, 5 p.m. Department would like to urge acceptance of plan at once upon Japanese Ambassador here, but does not understand or see necessity for phrase in Article 2, “who shall be appointed by the senior military officers of the Allied forces in the several districts occupied by them.” Time presses for early settlement.

Lansing