861.00/6263: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Commissioner at Riga ( Gade )

Your 81 [82], January 29, 5 p.m. You may informally bring to the attention of the Latvian Minister for Foreign Affairs that the United States cannot give assurance of such economic and military assistance as would be implied by its advising the Latvian authorities to refuse to conclude an armistice with Bolshevist Russia.

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