861.01/55: Telegram
The Chargé in Russia (Poole) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 11 p.m.]
1247. 128 to Paris. Continuing 1235, May 29, 11 p.m. The French Chargé d’Affaires telegraphed yesterday the substance of a note of the Provisional Government on the Kolchak proposal.95 I presume you will receive this.
I have just talked with General Miller96 on the subject. He is, of course, profoundly gratified at the turn events have taken. He understands better now the spirit of the conditions respecting the dependent nationalities. He seems to feel that the provisional arrangements suggested are acceptable on the understanding that final adjustment on the Russian side remains exclusively within the competence of the constituent assembly or its mandatory. He spoke again of the practical and moral difficulties in the way of re-convoking the 1917 Constituent Assembly.