763.72119/3260: Telegram
The Commission to Negotiate Peace to the Acting Secretary of State
Paris, January 4,
1919, 4 a.m.
[Received 8:43 a.m.]
[Received 8:43 a.m.]
145. Under date of December 24, 5 p.m., Legation Stockholm informed the Mission that the British, Italian, French Ministers and himself had received letters dated Stockholm, December 23, from Litvinoff, a plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation of Soviets, expressing a desire to enter upon preliminary peace negotiations.
For your information. This matter is receiving consideration.
Lansing
Am[erican] Mission