Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1919, Russia

861.00/4751: Telegram

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

Archangel, June 25, 1919, 7 p.m.
[Received June 26, 2:37 a.m.]

1303. 136 to Paris. The Provisional Government has received a telegram from Kolchak appointing Lieutenant General Miller,³⁶ now Governor General and acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, to be “Commander in Chief of Russian land and sea forces operating against the Bolsheviki on the northern front”. Local opinion regards this telegram, together with a similar order to General Yudenich on the Petrograd front and the voluntary recognition of Kolchak by General Denikin, as important steps in the unification of Russia. Kolchak can exercise an actual control here by wireless from Omsk to Archangel and by occasional over [land] messages.

Cole

36. Eugeni Ludvig Karlovich Miller.