William Graves Sharp to Robert Lansing
Title
William Graves Sharp to Robert Lansing
Creator
Sharp, William Graves, 1859-1922
Identifier
WWP25128
Date
1918 July 13
Description
Kerensky has been questioned.
Source
Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson Papers
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
Subject
World War, 1914-1918
Switzerland
Kerensky, Aleksandr Fyodorovich, 1881-1970
Contributor
Morgan Willer
Relation
WWP25125
Language
English
Provenance
Document scan was taken from Library of Congress microfilm reel of the Wilson Papers. WWPL volunteers transcribed the text.
Text
COPY of TELEGRAM
SECSTATE
WASHINGTON.
No 4448 July 13 12 a.m.
For Creel from Kerney. Strongly suggest advisability of securing some sympathetic references to Switzerland in American papers of influence. Moreover if prominent American preferably member of cabinet took early opportunity in public declaration of speaking of our sister Republic of Switzerland the effect would be happiest. Please cable me any such references for use in Switzerland. French authorities fully agree with these suggestions. For your information we have had Kerensky carefully and thoroughly questioned. He does not offer any practical suggestion either for active propaganda or for intervention in Russia. He continues to insist that Russia has not accepted German peace. Declares reactionaries and Bolsheviki both for Germany but mass of Russians against. Does not specify practical program and evades issue when urged to give details and facts.
SHARP
SECSTATE
WASHINGTON.
No 4448 July 13 12 a.m.
For Creel from Kerney. Strongly suggest advisability of securing some sympathetic references to Switzerland in American papers of influence. Moreover if prominent American preferably member of cabinet took early opportunity in public declaration of speaking of our sister Republic of Switzerland the effect would be happiest. Please cable me any such references for use in Switzerland. French authorities fully agree with these suggestions. For your information we have had Kerensky carefully and thoroughly questioned. He does not offer any practical suggestion either for active propaganda or for intervention in Russia. He continues to insist that Russia has not accepted German peace. Declares reactionaries and Bolsheviki both for Germany but mass of Russians against. Does not specify practical program and evades issue when urged to give details and facts.
SHARP
Original Format
Letter
To
Lansing, Robert, 1864-1928
Files
Collection
Citation
Sharp, William Graves, 1859-1922, “William Graves Sharp to Robert Lansing,” 1918 July 13, WWP25128, World War I Letters, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.