861.00/5308: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Commission to Negotiate Peace
3319. For Polk.
Your 4436, September 29, noon. Refer you to Hoover’s cable Hash 854, undated at Paris, received August 7th,56 wherein he informs Department of his intention to withdraw relief personnel of Baltic by August 15th and that he had transferred considerable quantities food to Russians which at that time was in storage at Viborg, Finland, which would meet the needs of Russian population in liberated Russian districts for some months to come. Same cable informs Department that these stocks would be available for the needs of Petrograd population in the event of the fall of that city and should order be restored there. All of these supplies have been placed in charge of the American Consul at Viborg by Hoover.
You are correct in that we have no funds with which to finance any further food supplies and although we anticipate requesting the President to present a general plan to Congress we cannot predict its attitude.