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763.72119/3944: Telegram

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

Paris, February 28, 1919—9 p.m.
[Received March 1—12:41 a.m.]

7467. Your 7549, 27, 5 p.m. While I shall be very happy to comply with the Department’s request to keep it promptly informed as to the attitude of the French press, particularly as it has to do with the American program on the League of Nations, yet, until the receipt of your telegram, I had supposed that the American mission was giving such information to the Department. We have been supplying the [Page 518] Commission almost daily with a translation résumé of French press comments bearing on such questions. Though we send to the Department a pouch three times a week containing many comments of the French press pertaining to the work of the conference, yet hereafter, in view of your statement, I [will] see that the Department gets the information by telegraph which it has asked. Possibly you had not received my 7439, 26, 12 p.m.24 giving rather copious extracts from French press on the President’s Boston speech.

Sharp
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