861.00/4838: Telegram
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Davis) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 6:40 p.m.]
2518. Your circular telegram June 28, 6 p.m. regarding interference by Semenoff with operation of Siberian railways. Foreign Office states that instructions have been sent to British representatives in Siberia in accordance with the wishes of the Government of the United States and presumes that a similar request has been addressed to the Japanese Government.
The matter was broached to the Foreign Office in informal conversation during which immediate acquiescence in our views was intimated, but it was deemed wiser to await more formal announcement which has just been received. I infer that British representative at Tokyo has been advised. As British Government is becoming more and more directly concerned with the Russian problem which looms larger than ever now that peace negotiations are approaching completion and as it receives repeated requests from the new Baltic states and other nationalities for loans to enable them to continue their opposition to Bolshevism the deplorable effects arising from the lack of consistent Allied policy toward Russia based upon the Allied note to Koltchak and his reply are constantly alluded to by officials here.
While for some reason this Government appears unwilling or unable to take the initiative in the matter I believe that it would welcome a proposal that a conference be held for such purpose.