893.51/2602: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Wallace) to the Secretary of State
[Extract]
Paris, January
3, 1920, 11 p.m.
[Received January 3, 8.46 p.m.]
[Received January 3, 8.46 p.m.]
15. Your 9441, December 27. I learn at the Foreign Office that the French Government’s contention that the disbandment of troops should be a sine qua non to the issuance of the loan has been withdrawn and that it so informed the British Embassy here on December 30th. The French Government, however, will insist that unnecessary troops be disbanded at the earliest possible moment not only by the Northern but also by the Southern factions and proportionally. …
Wallace