Office of the Historian

File No. 811.2222/12463a

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France ( Sharp)1

[Telegram]
Washington, June 27, 1918, 10 a.m.

4784. Your [Department’s] 4481, June 11, 3 p.m., military service convention. Please urge immediate reply, as it is expected Congress may adjourn within the next few days until August. It is of the greatest importance to agree upon text and sign convention at once in order that it may be presented, if possible, to Senate before it adjourns.

There is no possiblity of having War Department here adopt French ages for military service, on account of administrative difficulties.

Lansing
  1. The same, mutatis mutandis, on the same date, with last sentence omitted, to the Ambassador in Italy, No. 1495. (File No. 811.2222/12463b.)↩