861.01/142: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Commission to Negotiate Peace
3270. For Polk.
Your 4370, September 26, midnight.
No change in policy. We are not withdrawing support of Kolchak. On the contrary we are continuing to ship rifles and President has just approved application of Russian Ambassador to buy on a credit basis surplus cloth and clothing for Kolchak forces. After submitting question to the President we have also approved purchase by Kolchak Government of Russian rouble notes73 concerning which you will recall much discussion in the past. I am taking up with President question of Kolchak’s recognition.
- See section on Release to the Kolchak Government of the Russian State Bank Notes Printed in the United States, pp. 453 ff.; see also Foreign Relations, 1918, Russia, vol. iii, pp. 72 ff.↩