861.00/3802: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan ( Morris ), temporarily at Vladivostok, to the Acting Secretary of State
Vladivostok
,
February 4, 1919, 1
p.m.
[Received 2:45 p.m.]
[Received 2:45 p.m.]
I am advised that Consul General Harris has telegraphed the Department submitting the suggestion that representatives of Allied Governments should take part in the proposed negotiations between Semenoff and Kolchack. The British representative yesterday discussed this suggestion with General Graves and me and we were all of the opinion that no such action should be taken. To participate even informally in these negotiations would be misinterpreted by many Russians and might seriously embarrass our railway plans.
Morris