File No. 861.51/244
The Secretary of State to the Consul at Tiflis ( Smith )
[Telegram]
Washington
,
November
26, 1917, 4 p.m.
Your telegram November 23 and previous telegrams. Please advise how under circumstances you describe the financial support you propose will not tend to encourage sectionalism or disruption of Russia or civil war. Department cannot encourage tendencies in any of these directions.
Lansing