860c.4016/100: Telegram
The Minister in Poland (Gibson), Temporarily at Paris, to the Acting Secretary of State29
[Received June 26, 3.09 a.m.]
Department’s 32, June 20, 5 p.m. Report on Vilna affair was joint report by Bogen, Bailey and me. The Department was expected to use it as such.
Bogen, Bailey and I visited Lida and Lemberg, making personal investigations in each place. Before the report was prepared, I was summoned to Paris for conference and have arrived today. Am asking Bogen and Bailey to agree on report and telegraph it here so that I may transmit it to Department.
Mission of the Diet has returned to Pinsk to secure further information on various doubtful points. Bogen, Bailey and I were agreed that we could not with propriety [go there] for a short investigation while the Mission were sitting in hearings which have lasted for some weeks and may last for several weeks longer.
I am informed that the President contemplates sending to Poland a mission to investigate Jewish matters. In case this is decided upon it would seem futile for me to make further investigations.
- Forwarded by the Commission to Negotiate Peace as No. 2784.↩