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The Commission to Negotiate Peace to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:56 p.m.]
5537. The Council of the Heads of Delegations met Monday morning December 1st. No meeting Sunday.
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3. The Council had before it a letter from Marshal Foch with regard to the relations between Esthonian Government and General Yudenich. The Marshal stated that he had just received a telegram of [from] the General setting forth his difficulties and asking in case it was not desired to let him remain in Esthonia that he be transported elsewhere with his troops, for instance to the territories under General Deniken’s control. The Marshal proposed, first, that General Niessel, as soon as he had settled matters in Courland, which [Page 747] would probably be about December 15, should be sent to Esthonia to negotiate an agreement between the Esthonian Government and General Yudenich; and, second, meanwhile the Esthonian Government should be invited by General Niessel’s representative on the spot to hold in abeyance until further notice all hasty measures of [against] General Yudenich. Mr. Polk accepted the Marshal’s second proposal but as regards the first said that he would have to refer it to his Government since it was tantamount to giving General Niessel a political mission. Sir Eyre Crowe accepted also on the understanding that the Esthonian Government should not be told that the Niessel mission was to settle the question. The Council agreed to make the request proposed by the Marshal of the Esthonian Government and to inform it that the Council had taken the question under consideration.
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