Paris Peace Conference 180.03401/29
Notes of a Meeting held at President Wilson’s House in the Place des Etats-Unis, Paris, on Saturday May 24th, 1919, at 11 a.m.
C. F. 29
- Present.—United States of America. President Wilson.—British Empire.—The Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd George, M.P.—France. M. Clemenceau.—Italy. M. Orlando.
| Sir Maurice Hankey, K.C.B. | } | Secretaries |
| Count Aldrovandi | ||
| Prof. P. J. Mantoux | Interpreter |
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Russia
7. President Wilson said that he had sent a copy of Mr. Philip Kerr’s draft despatch to Mr. Lansing, who had replied that he considered the statement right, and that the United States were justified in joining in it. Mr. Lansing would have preferred to withhold the despatch until a reply had been received from Mr. Morris, who had [Page 361] been sent to Omsk. He himself, however, did not agree in this. He agreed, however, to the following addition to the paragraph numbered “fifthly”, at the top of page 5, which Mr. Lansing had proposed:
“and that until such settlement is made, the Government of Russia agrees to recognise those territories as autonomous, and to confirm the relations which may exist between the Allied and Associated Governments and the de facto Governments of those territories.”
(This was accepted.)
(It was agreed to discuss the question in the afternoon.)
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