861.51/656: Telegram
The Commission to Negotiate Peace to the Secretary of State
Paris, August 23,
1919, 2 p.m.
[Received 10:10 p.m.]
[Received 10:10 p.m.]
3859. For Miles52 from Polk.
Understand Koltchak government arranged through Baring Brothers in London for credits of £10,000,000 covered by deposit of gold in Hongkong bank. Under this agreement Great Britain to advance £3,000,000, United States to advance £6,000,000. Please let me know immediately all you can in regard to this transaction, what banks are handling it in United States, and how the matter stands. Have the bankers asked approval of the State Department? If so, was approval given?
American Mission
- Basil Miles, Acting Chief of the Division of Russian Affairs, Department of State.↩