Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1919, Volume II

600.119/2201: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France ( Sharp )

Washington , February 20, 1919, 6 p.m.

7475. For McFadden.

No. 807. McCormick. Embassy’s 7188, February 13, noon, your 930; and Embassy’s 7185, your 928, February 13, noon,³ we have announced reopening of trade with Bulgaria, Turkey in Europe, and the territory embraced within the Turkish Empire in Asia as constituted on August 1st, 1914, together with opening of all ports on the Black Sea.⁴ We assume this corresponds with action taken abroad.

Polk

3. Latter not printed.
4. Official Bulletin, Washington, Feb. 17, 1919 (vol. 3, No. 540), p. 1.