File No. 860d.00/138
The Minister in Sweden (Morris) to the Secretary of State
[Received 9.17 p.m.]
2081. I have received from Consul at Helsingfors following telegram which he asked to be transmitted to you:
27. May 13, 5 p.m. For your information and for Department of State. Our [I?] advise offer Finland food and provisional recognition independence subject to final peace-congress settlement, if the present government will give complete text German-Finnish agreement guaranteeing most-favored-nation-clause concerning passage American goods and subjects through Finland to Russia, free use Finnish territorial waters for American shipping, and protest for the release of Emery.1
- Henry C. Emery, in 1917 American member of the Inter-Ally Priority Board at Petrograd (Michelsen commission), was arrested by German forces Mar. 10, 1918, on the Aland Islands, when en route from Petrograd to Stockholm, and interned in Germany.↩