Office of the Historian

861.00/3754: Telegram

The Chargé in Russia (Poole) to the Acting Secretary of State

Archangel, January 28, 1919.
[Received January 29, 3:45 a.m.]

804. The following is being sent to Paris.

Number 26, January 28, 5 p.m. I received last night from the Provisional Government a six hundred [six?] page note, to the effect [Page 36] that it is both practically and morally impossible to accept the proposition of a conference of Russian factions which would include the Bolsheviki. The British Commissioner is telegraphing a complete English translation37 to the British peace mission in Paris and asking that a copy be furnished to you. The French Embassy has telegraphed a summary to the Foreign Office.

Poole
  1. Not printed (Paris Peace Conference 861.00/174).↩