Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, The Paris Peace Conference, 1919, Volume XI

Paris Peace Conf. 185.1/33

General Tasker H. Bliss to the Commission to Negotiate Peace²⁷

Paris, March 11, 1919.

I suggest that the American representative or representatives on each of the Committees appointed by the Peace Conference or by the Council of Ten be instructed to report to the American Delegation, before the arrival of the President, in what respect (if any) the report of his Committee violates (if it does violate) any of the President’s Declarations, and what is the justification for it.

Tasker H. Bliss

27. This memorandum bears the notation in Secretary Lansing’s handwriting: “Mr. Grew: I heartily approve this. Ask for reports by Thursday, the 13th RL.”