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

861.00/5799: Telegram

The Minister in Denmark (Hapgood) to the Secretary of State

Copenhagen, December 2, 1919, 11 a.m.
[Received 8:25 p.m.]

288. My number 269⁹⁷ and 275.⁹⁸ Litvinov’s credentials turn out to be extremely sweeping. They give him full power to conclude peace with any country on general terms indicated and also to alter such terms. Credentials signed by Lenin and Chicherin. O’Grady has applied London greater powers. Difficulties in the negotiations about prisoners caused by Litvinov’s wish to include Russian prisoners in Germany and Austria.

Hapgood

97. Dated Nov. 21, p. 123.
98. Not printed.