862.00B/2: Telegram
The Commissioner at Berlin (Dresel) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 1—5:52 p.m.]
911. Minister Simons stated to me that Kopp, Bolshevik representative here, was urging the Foreign Office to accord to him and [Page 260] his assistants similar privileges to those enjoyed by this Commission here. In especial Kopp asked for admission to the diplomatic gallery at the Reichstag to which this mission has had access. Simons expressed himself as somewhat embarrassed how to meet this request and consequently asked that Commission should give up their tickets and agree to take places in the gallery reserved for members of the Bundesrath. I readily agreed to this and to my question whether we could by giving up other privileges of the kind assist the German Government, he assured me that he knew at present of nothing else.