Office of the Historian

861.51/566: Telegram

The Commission to Negotiate Peace to the Acting Secretary of State

Paris, April 30, 1919, 4 p.m.
[Received 8:05 p.m.]

1867. Your 1679, April 22nd, 2 p.m. I would suggest that you communicate with the War Department regarding their attitude [plans] in Archangel before coming to any conclusion in regard to further relief. From our advices here this question seems to be one solely of military concern. Any relief work should necessarily be carried on in the closest cooperation with the military authorities McCormick is trying to close up the existing Murmansk agreement33 entered into by the United States last summer in which our obligation was limited to $5,000,000.

Lansing
American Mission
  1. Foreign Relations, 1918, Russia, vol. ii, pp. 493–495.↩