Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1919, Russia

861.00/5016b: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Commission to Negotiate Peace

Washington, August 8, 1919, 5 p.m.

2759. In reply to Mr. Clemenceau’s recent telegram to the President⁵ as to whether this Government is disposed to furnish the needed number of troops to replace Czecho-Slovaks when the latter are withdrawn from Siberia please say that, with the utmost regret, the President finds it impracticable to furnish additional American troops for this purpose.

Lansing

5. See telegram from the Commission to Negotiate Peace no. 3251, July 21, 9 p.m., p. 288.