Paris Peace Conference 861.48/31: Telegram
The Minister in Sweden (Morris) to the Commission to Negotiate Peace
[Received in Paris May 5, 2 a.m.]
269. A [The] Finnish Chargé d’Affaires called at the Legation this afternoon and stated that he had been instructed by his Government to inform us that the Finnish Government hoped that the United States and Associated Governments would not at present juncture send food to the portions of Russia controlled by Bolshevik authorities. The Finnish Chargé d’Affaires pointed out that it would seem particularly undesirable that food should be supplied just at the present moment when the Bolsheviks are being so vigorously pressed by their enemies on every side, and that it would be better to wait until a military decision had been reached before allowing food to go to Soviet Russia.