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File No. 763.72Su/2a

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France ( Sharp)1

[Telegram]
Washington, December 26, 1917, 4 p.m.

2982. You are instructed to inform immediately the French Government that this Government has decided to participate in the Supreme War Council, and that Gen. Tasker H. Bliss will leave by earliest available transportation for Versailles as its representative.

Lansing
  1. The same, mutatis mutandis, on the same date, to the Ambassadors in Great Britain (No. 6120) and Italy (No. 1013).↩