Office of the Historian

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
  1. Dated Nov. 21, p. 123.↩
  2. Not printed.↩