Paris Peace Conf. 184.1 House, Edward M.: Telegram

The Commission to Negotiate Peace to the Secretary of State

4002. Strictly confidential for the Secretary of State only [from Polk]. House writes that President wishes him to return to Paris.92 Please send me a message to be decoded by me advising me reason of his return and my position in the Mission as regards him. Will he be head of delegation? Any arrangement will be satisfactory, but I would like to know grounds for move. Polk.

Am[erican] Mission
  1. See Colonel House’s letter of August 30, p. 638.