861.00/7465a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Wallace)
Washington, October
1, 1920—5 p.m.
1526. Press reports that French have threatened their Black Sea fleet will take action against Soviet Russia unless all French prisoners in Russia are repatriated by October 1st and that wireless message from Moscow quotes Chicherin as saying “We bow to brute force”.
[Page 685]Inquire at Foreign Office concerning alleged French threat and cable all possible facts.
Colby