862.001 W 64/46
The Counselor for the Department of State ( Polk ) to the Assistant Secretary of State ( Phillips )
[
Washington
,] December
6, 1918.
Mr. Phillips: I spoke to the President about this matter,5 and he said under no circumstances was he prepared to commit himself at this time. The question of the punishment of the German Kaiser could be taken up when he reached France.
F[rank] L[yon] P[olk]
- See memorandum from the British Embassy, Foreign Relations, 1919, vol. ii, p. 653.↩