Office of the Historian

Paris Peace Conf. 184/187

The Secretary General of the Commission to Negotiate Peace (Grew) to Dr. R. H. Lord63

Paris, 3 July, 1919.

Dear Dr. Lord: At the meeting of the Commissioners on July 164 they approved of the creation of a Russian Division composed in accordance with the following schedule, with the understanding that General Bliss would charge himself with the oversight of all Russian matters dealt with by the Commission and would, accordingly, initial all outgoing correspondence therewith:

  • Secretariat—Mr. Whitehouse,
  • European Russia and Poland, Dr. Lord,
  • Baltic Provinces, Colonel Greene and Major Tyler,
  • Caucasus and Asia Minor, Mr. Buckler,
  • Siberia, Captain Hornbeck and Mr. Marshall.

Will you accordingly please confer with Mr. Whitehouse with a view to adopting some system by which incoming correspondence on Russian affairs shall be referred to the appropriate office and by which outgoing correspondence shall be submitted to General Bliss for approval.

Yours sincerely,

J. C. Grew
  1. The same communication was sent on the same day to Mr. Sheldon Whitehouse, Lt. Col. Warwick Greene, Maj. Royall Tyler, Mr. W. H. Buckler, Capt. S. K. Hornbeck, and Mr. H. D. Marshall of the Commission to Negotiate Peace.↩
  2. See minutes of this meeting, p. 256.↩