760n.61/–: Telegram
The Commissioner at Riga (Young) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 10:52 p.m.]
274. Increased uneasiness and apprehension in Esthonia and Latvia over possible or probable Bolshevik attack. Bolsheviks now recruiting Esthonian, Latvian, and Polish Communists in Russia apparently for use in these countries in connection with regular troops of the Red army. It is believed that Congress of All Russian Soviets which is being sent Moscow on December 20 will decide Bolshevik policy of peace or war.
I do not consider situation today as alarming, though it is admittedly serious. Suggest temporary discontinuance issuance passports for Baltic Provinces if it can be done without publicity, also that American naval vessel be held within easy steaming distance.
Foregoing fully concurred in by Colonel Hollyday.53
- Col. Thomas W. Hollyday, military observer in the Baltic Provinces.↩