Paris Peace Conf. 184.7/16b: Telegram
The Commission to Negotiate Peace to the Acting Secretary of State
Paris, July 10, 1919.
3053. Reports have reached the Commission that stories are being published in America criticizing a dance recently given in the Hotel Crillon. On the night of July 4th, as a part of the general celebration in Paris, the members of the Staff of the Commission gave an informal dance, the first entertainment of any kind by them since the beginning of the Conference. It was a subscription affair, the expenses of which were borne by the guests themselves, and without any cost whatever to the Government. The story should be denied.
Am[erican] Mission