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28/VII/1918.

TELEGRAM.

American Ambassador Francis, Archangel.

I take the opportunity of this last moment before your departure
to express once more my profound regret and sorrow at the unfortunate
circumstances that have had as result your present journey across the
sea and also my best thanks for your kindness and courtesy and for your
good feelings towards the Russian popular masses whose most adequate
and faithful representatives are the Soviets, the councils of the Poor and
of the Toiling. Please convey our affection and admiration in the messages
you will send across the ocean to the great people of pioneers on the new
continent and to the posterity of Cromwell’s revolutionaries and of the
heroes of the War of Independence.

TCHITCHERIN.

28 /VI1/1918.

TELEGRAM.

High Commissioner Lindley, Archangel.

Murmansk does not accept our official telegrams but accepts allies
telegrams. We can uphold Archangel Mourmansk telegraph traffic if
both you and ourselves use it, please kindly take the necessary measures
to that effect. I hope this first opportunity of our collaboration will be
successful and will not be the last one.

TCHITCHERIN.