Office of the Historian

File No. 860d.00/255

The Secretary of State to the Consul at Helsingfors (Haynes)2

[Telegram]
Washington, August 23, 1918, 4 p.m.

Your 73. Department concurs in your opinion and commends your judgment that any action or consultations relative to recognition of de facto government should be deferred until situation is more clearly defined than at present.

Lansing
  1. Id. (No. 1037).↩