861.01/169: Telegram
The Chargé in Sweden (Wheeler) to the Secretary of State
[Received 7:08 p.m.]
4238. All papers here print telegram from London to the effect that the State Department has made the following announcement in Washington:
“No plan contemplating a compromise with the Russian Bolshevik Government has been approved by the Government of the United States. The United States does not intend to take part in any conference to which Bolshevik representatives whether from the Baltic States or from Russia are admitted. The policy of the State Department is to continue to encourage arrangements made [with] Russian cooperative societies in [non-]Bolshevik territory by American exporters of foodstuffs and clothing.”
This statement has attracted much attention here and I beg to ask whether it is authentic.