Paris Peace Conf. 184.011/51c: Telegram
The Commission to Negotiate Peace to the Minister in Switzerland (Stovall)
67. For Coolidge. “Your dispatches No. 31 January 20th and 33 January 22d.47 Attempts to settle boundary disputes by American representatives should in future be avoided as outside of scope your mission. Such action even if temporary can only properly be taken by Interallied representatives and an assumption by United States of office of sole arbiter may well prove embarrassing. In this case Commission neither ratifies nor disavows action taken but will not unless occasion requires interfere with statu quo.
- Latter not printed.↩