763.72119/3367: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Commission to Negotiate Peace

282. For Secretary Lansing. Your 226, January 10, 4 p.m. At the suggestion of the Department, Liberia has designated two Liberians and H. F. Worley, American Financial Adviser of Liberia, as delegates to Peace Conference with one stenographer or assistant from the United States.

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Liberian delegates are C. D. B. King, Secretary of State, and Charles B. Dunbar, Senator, both of whom are known here as able men. Worley is now here assisting the Department in negotiations and working out financial program for the financial aid to Liberia.

Can you arrange temporary or permanent lodging and one office room for them?

The two Liberian delegates left Liberia January 13th via Cadiz.

Polk