Office of the Historian

861.00/7681: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the High Commissioner at Constantinople (Bristol)

Washington, November 23, 1920—4 p.m.

95. Your 576, November 14, 3 p.m. and 580, November 15, 12 noon. Action approved. Department regrets that no Government funds are available for support of refugees. For your confidential information: Russian Ambassador here has made $200,000 available to American Red Cross to assist it in this work.37

Keep Department fully informed.

Colby
  1. The Department was subsequently advised by the American Red Cross that the amount of the Ambassador’s contribution had been increased to $300,000.↩