850d.00/362: Telegram
The Commission to Negotiate Peace to the Acting Secretary of State
Paris, April 19,
1919—4 p.m.
[Received April 19—2:12 p.m.]
[Received April 19—2:12 p.m.]
1688. Your 1458. For Phillips. You may say to the Norwegian Minister that unless there are American interests involved of which I am not now advised I shall be glad to support the desire of Norway to extend sovereignty over Spitzbergen in the event that the status of the archipelago becomes a subject of discussion here. Lansing.
Am[erican] Mission