Paris Peace Conf. 184.011102/203: Telegram

Mr. Albert Halstead to the Commission to Negotiate Peace

654. Referring to my telegram No. 646.79 Colonel Cunningham saw Boehm today. Said he was consulting his friends and would be ready to act in about a month and that it would require 48 hours to overthrow Kun regime, but he could not proceed until assured that Allies would approve plan outlined in my telegram 646. In view of your telegram number 13779 I cannot recommend approval of plan which was entirely subject to approval of governments concerned but can only report facts. Respectfully inquire whether raising of blockade and furnishing food and raw materials as means of improving [Page 615] conditions and destroying Bolsheviki terror, but I fear their presence would be considered partial recognition and strengthen Bela Kun. The other Allied representatives agree with this view.

Halstead
  1. Ante, p. 613.
  2. Ante, p. 613.