861.00/4858: Telegram
The Commission to Negotiate Peace to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 10:54 p.m.]
3167. Your 2445, June 27, 6 p.m.
Supreme Council on July 7th approved the proposal of the Baltic Commission that the Finnish Government should be notified that the Allied Governments had no objections to any assistance the Finnish Government might be able to give to bring about the relief of Petrograd, and on July 9th the French Government sent the following telegram to the French Chargé d’Affaires at Helsingfors:
“The Supreme Council has decided that a joint telegram should be addressed to the British, American, Italian and French Chargé d’Affaires at Helsingfors to ask them to inform the Government of General Mannerheim that in case he thought he ought to follow up the request for action of Admiral Kolchak, the Allied Governments, without bringing any pressure on the Finnish Government, would have no objection to raise against this operation.
I beg you to communicate the text of this decision of the Conference to your British, American and Italian colleagues and thus [to make] to General Mannerheim, in accord with them, the conditions [communication] with which you are jointly charged. Signed, Pichon.”
Our representative at Helsingfors informed.