861.01/72: Telegram
The Commission to Negotiate Peace to the Acting Secretary of State
Paris, undated.
[Received June 26, 1919, 4:12 a.m.]
[Received June 26, 1919, 4:12 a.m.]
2777. From Sta[tion] Nav[al].
33. Ekaterinodar, June 17, 6 p.m. Following from important declaration by General Denikin at farewell banquet to English General Briggs June 12:
“In very hour of our victory, treason based on personal ambition is growing in rear. Safety of cause lies in a single high commander-in-chief. Because I believe this, I yield to Admiral Kolchak and recognize him as Supreme Governor Russian state and commander-in-chief Russia Army”.
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