861.00/3851 a: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Commission to Negotiate Peace

643. For the Secretary of State:

Secretary of War requests that you will inform the President that War Department, although anxious in regard to the Archangel situation is not giving consideration to the question as to whether the troops there are in any actual danger, nor is it giving consideration to the question as to whether they need reinforcement, as it is his understanding that the American force in Archangel is operating under the command of General Foch, and that the Supreme War Council would therefore be charged with the duty of seeing that it is properly reinforced and in general protecting safety of the various units making up the forces.

Polk