Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1919, Russia

861.77/969: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Morris), temporarily at Omsk

Washington, July 31, 1919, 5 p.m.

Referring to four conclusions reached in your July 27, 4 p.m.

1. Does this assure adequate authority for Stevens to keep line open in various sections? In other words can he count on cordial support from Russian railway officials or will they continue to submit to military dictation?

3.20 How will this affect General Graves in practice? This point will have to be submitted to President to approve new instructions to Graves. Please make quite clear.

4. Department inclined to favor but please state advantages to be gained by moving Technical and Military Boards to Omsk. Is Inter-Allied Committee included in proposal or will it continue to sit at Vladivostok?

Please route your reports through Legation Peking with request to expedite.

Lansing

20. Numbering as on the original; evidently refers to conclusion 3 in the Ambassador’s telegram of July 27, supra.