861.00/4920: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Irkutsk ( Harris ), temporarily at Omsk
Washington
,
July 30, 1919, 5
p.m.
For Morris.
Your July 24, 4 p.m. thoroughly approved.
For your comment: Department has regarded Kolchak’s public announcements as a genuine expression of purpose and has believed that the reactionary elements, especially among the officers, have been the most serious difficulty with which he has had to contend and which possibly may even now prove too strong for him, especially if such elements can count further upon the support of Japan.
Lansing