763.72119/5058: Telegram
The Commission to Negotiate Peace to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received May 22—2:33 a.m.]
2197. Robert Heingartner reported in Paris on May 20 and left the same evening for Vienna with instructions from the Commission to continue the press and political information, telegrams and despatches which have previously been sent by the Coolidge Mission. These telegrams will be repeated to the Department. Coolidge leaves Vienna the evening of the 22d after having consulted with Heingartner. Captain Roosevelt, Vice Consul Bundy and the other members of his mission will also shortly return to Paris. Pending the arrival in Vienna of Consul General Halstead, the Commission is requesting Coolidge to leave such clerical and coding personnel in Vienna as may be feasible and the Commission will endeavor to arrange temporarily for this personnel to be financed from any residue of the fund which has been set aside for Coolidge’s mission. With the arrival of Consul General Halstead, it seems necessary that the Department of State should take over exclusively the question of finance and personnel. Coolidge has been reporting by telegraph in Navy Code. For the sake of convenience for both the Commission and the Department it seems desirable that Halstead should be supplied with the necessary Departmental codes.