861.00/3622a: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Commission to Negotiate Peace
110. For the Secretary of State:
Before you left Washington, you discussed with the President a declaration by him of the attitude of this Government towards the Bolshevik authorities in Russia, and found that the President preferred to withhold any separate statement by himself until he could discuss the matter with the leaders of the Associated Governments. The reports we receive and which are repeated to you by our Embassies and Legations, show the growing menace of Bolshevism outside of Russia. I believe no one can take the lead so well as the President in defining the attitude of the Associated Governments on this question and would be glad to know what steps, if any, in that direction have been taken.