861.00/3920
The Acting Secretary of State to the British Chargé (Barclay)
Memorandum
The Acting Secretary of State presents his compliments to His Britannic Majesty’s Chargé d’Affaires and has the honor to state that, for the reasons given in the Department’s memoranda of January 25 and February 6 [8], 1919, the Government of the United States seriously questions the advisability of assisting at this time the return to China of Chinese workmen and coolies who have been under the influence of the Bolshevik rule in Russia.
Washington
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February 28, 1919
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