Paris Peace Conf. 184.0131/11b
The Secretary General of the Commission to Negotiate Peace (Grew) to Colonel David H. Biddle, American Liaison Officer, Cologne
Sir: The American Commission to Negotiate Peace has delegated Mr. Ellis Loring Dresel to head a mission to proceed to Berlin. Mr. Dresel, accompanied by Mr. Lithgow Osborne, Second Secretary of Embassy, and Messrs. Morris Medofsky, David L. Ullman and James Mannion, will leave Paris on Wednesday, April 16th, arriving at Cologne on April 17th. The Commission will be grateful to you if you can secure three compartments on the train to Berlin on the night of Thursday, April 17th, for the accommodation of Mr. Dresel and his party, and if you will inform the Commission telegraphically whether it is possible for you to do this.
The German Foreign Office will be advised through the American Legation at Berne of the prospective date of arrival in Germany of Mr. Dresel and his party, but it might also help avoid possible unnecessary delays if you could have the proper German authorities beyond the occupied territory informed with a view to obtaining their assistance in expediting Mr. Dresel’s journey.
I am [etc.]