File No. 861.00/3381
The Secretary of State to the British Chargé (Barclay)
Memorandum
The Secretary of State presents his compliments to the Chargé d’Affaires of Great Britain and begs to acknowledge the receipt of a memorandum No. 1302, dated November 20, 1918, on the subject of making some statement with a view to easing the situation at Archangel.
[Page 572]In view of the fact that the President and the Secretary of State will shortly proceed to Paris, where they will be able to confer directly with representatives of the Allied Governments, it is believed that consideration of any general statement in regard to the Bolsheviki in Russia might best be deferred until that time. In the meanwhile, the Government of the United States proposes to inform the American Chargé d’Affaires at Archangel that the signing of the armistice will make no change in the general situation relative to American troops in north Russia until such time as the President and the Secretary of State are able to discuss this question upon their arrival in Paris.