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File No. 711.0012/517

The Russian Ambassador (Bakhméteff) to the Secretary of State

Newport, Rhode Island, undated.
[Received September 24, 1914, 11 a.m.]

[Telegram]

I have great pleasure in informing you that the Imperial Government, wishing to give a proof of its good-will and friendship to the Government of the United States, has directed me to negotiate and sign a peace treaty with you.2 I will come to Washington as soon as I have prepared the draft.

Bakhméteff
  1. The treaty was signed on October 1. Ibid., p. 1283.↩