763.72119/8549b: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Czechoslovakia ( Crane )20
39. Since the various peace treaties have not yet been ratified the United States will not at present have representatives on the several [Page 37] delimitation and plebiscite commissions. In the case of the Teschen Commission, however, you may informally and confidentially suggest to the Czechoslovak Government that if they should care to express a definite wish for the appointment of an American on the Commission, this Government would be willing to consider the suggestion.21
- The same, mutatis mutandis, to the Minister in Poland, as no. 261 (file no. 763.72119/8549c).↩
- The Department had been informed Dec. 10, 1919, through the Ambassador in France: “Both Governments, either formally or orally, have expressed their hope for the participation of the United States on this Plebiscite Commission.” (File no. 763.72119/8211.)↩