861.00/3837: Telegram

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

7435. Your 7183, February 12, 11 p.m. Please inform Mr. Beneš his attitude much appreciated. In this connection it seems too little understood that this Government made a loan of $7,000,000 to the Czecho-Slovak National Council before Professor Masaryk86 left here, and that the purchase and shipment of military supplies and equipment for the Czech troops in Siberia was begun at once.

Department was surprised to ascertain only recently that the Czecho-Slovak National Council in Siberia still had only very little knowledge of this transaction, in spite of the fact that the military equipment purchased from the American loan had been accumulating at Vladivostok. Any difficulty connected with this question has now passed but the Department will be glad to have Mr. Beneš understand that the extraordinary and gallant efforts which were made by the Czech troops in Siberia were appreciated.

Polk
  1. Thomas G. Masaryk, President of the Czechoslovak National Council.