Office of the Historian

Paris Peace Conf. 840.48/7: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Commission to Negotiate Peace

Washington , January 4, 1919—5 p.m.
[Received January 5—6:50 p.m.]

98. Your 127 January 2nd [1st], For the Secretary of State. Sherley54 had an interview with Glass in regard to appropriation for relief Balkan States in line with President’s message contained in your 127, Jan. 2nd [1st]. Sherley advises me it would be difficult to get this money without facts. It is necessary to know how the work will be done and what security, if any, would be taken, and whether Great Britain, France and Italy are to contribute their share. He thinks it would be better not to move until he has this information. Please give me all you can for him which I shall transmit to him through Secretary of the Treasury.

Polk
  1. Representative Swagar Sherley of Kentucky, chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.↩