Office of the Historian

861.00/4270: Telegram

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

Washington, April 15, 1919, 6 p.m.

588. In response to inquiry what answer should be made to your No. 1053, April 9, 7 p.m., Am[erican] mission replies as follows:

“In my opinion no military information of the kind requested in Archangel’s No. 79 to Am[erican] mission28 should be transmitted [Page 628] by Department to Poole. All instructions relating to the future of the Archangel expedition are in the possession of Generals Ironside and Maynard,30 from whom alone such information as can be disclosed should be obtained. When in due course this has been acquired the questions asked as to the Y.M.C.A. will also find their solution.”

Polk
  1. No. 1053, Apr. 9, 7 p.m., to the Secretary of State, supra.↩
  2. Maj. Gen. Charles C. M. Maynard, of the British Army, in command of the Allied forces at Murmansk.↩