...have made it evident that that is in the interest of what the Russian people themselves desire, and the Government of the United States is glad to contribute...Kola, and to make it safe for Russian forces to come together_ in organized bodies in the north. But it owes it to frank counsel to say that it can go no...

...guaranteed. As a final concession to Allied unity, the united States "yields, also, to the judgement of the Supreme Command in the matter of establishing...at Murmansk to guard the military stores at Kola." The Allies had waited six months to gain American approval and assistance to Russian intervention....