Paris Peace Conf. 184.00101/144
Minutes of the Daily Meetings of the Commissioners Plenipotentiary, Tuesday, August 26, 1919, 10 a.m.
- Present:
- Mr. Polk
- Mr. White
- General Bliss
- Mr. Harrison
I. The Secretary read a memorandum submitted by Major Tyler under date of August 22, regarding the conversation with Baron Eichoff of the Austrian Peace Commission under the following headings: South Styria, The Tyrol and West Hungary. Memorandum of Conversation With Baron Eichoff
II. The Secretary invited the Commissioners’ attention to the department’s telegram 3932, August 23, 3:00 p.m. in reply to the mission’s 3766, August 19, 2:00 p.m. in which it appeared that the department approved the taking over of the A. R. A. wires by the mission. The Taking Over of A. R. A. Wires
[Page 395]III. The Secretary read memoranda submitted by Admiral Knapp, August 25, giving certain information furnished by the Commander of the U. S. S. Des Moines, at Archangel, regarding the situation in that port. Conditions at Archangel
IV. The Secretary read a communication received from General McCoy, Chief of Staff to General Harbord, dated on board the S. S. Martha Washington, Brest, France, August 23, with which General McCoy submitted a draft telegram to be sent by the Mission to Dr. Katissian, President of the Armenian Republic, requesting certain definite information for the information of the Harbord Mission. Information for the Harbord Mission
The Commissioners approved the despatch of a telegram to the American Commissioner at Constantinople requesting him to compile as far as possible the information desired by General Harbord and to deliver the same to the General upon his arrival.
V. The Secretary read a communication addressed by Dr. George D. Herron under date of August 16 to the American Minister at Berne requesting an opinion of Mr. Stovall as to whether it would be proper for him to come to Paris as an official delegate of the Macedonians to present their claims to the Peace Conference. (Memorandum 554, August 25, 1919.) Dr. Herron To Represent Macedonian National Committee
The Commissioners directed that the following telegram be sent to the Legation: “The Commission is distinctly of the opinion that it would be entirely undesirable for Dr. Herron to come to Paris.”