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861.01/142: Telegram

The Commission to Negotiate Peace to the Acting Secretary of State

Paris, September 26, 1919, midnight.
[Received September 27, 4:05 a.m.]

4370. Secretary of State from Polk.

Please let me know whether the Department is considering recognizing Kolchak. Matter is being urged here by the Russians. I [Page 435] have told them all that this matter must be taken up in Washington. I would like to know, if recognition is not to be granted, whether the Department is withdrawing support.

Polk
American Mission