Office of the Historian

861.48/741: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Russia (Poole)

Washington, January 16, 1919, 7 p.m.

448. Money allotted our share Murmansk work exhausted. Following cable received from Embassy London:

“Foreign Office state that the sum so far encashed from sale of foodstuffs to civilian population at Archangel is 22,238,000 rubles, and that some considerable return on the expenditures already made by the Allies may therefore be expected.”

What are your recommendations regarding use of our share of this amount and other sums thus realized as a revolving fund to be expended for Murmansk relief? Consult Cole. Answer quickly.

Polk