861.00/4120: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Sharp) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received March 21, 10:46 p.m.]
7784. Your 4773, March 8, 6 p.m. to London and repeated to Embassy. In reply to the Embassy’s note, based on Department’s instruction, Foreign Office states that it has received no information concerning the incidents mentioned in eastern Siberia between General Ivanoff-Rinof and certain elements of the population and therefore cannot come to any decision thereon with regard to the incidents which certain military groups have caused at Omsk. The information which has come to the knowledge of the French Government tends to show that these groups had acted in a purely reactionary manner and the French Government can only approve Admiral Koltchak’s having repressed them without going into the details of the way in which this repression was executed. The French Government considers that every idea of reaction and of a return to the old regime should be abolished in Russia and can only support every step of the American Government in this direction.