Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72/47

The Chargé d’Affaires in Sweden (Caffery) to the Secretary of State

American Legation,
Stockholm, August 1, 1914, 11 a.m.
[Received 6:35 p.m.]

[Telegram]

Member of German Legation informs me confidentially Germany endeavoring to persuade Sweden to readjust1 in case of general war. Sympathies here with Germany.

Caffery
  1. Garbled in transmission: should read “attack Russia.” See the Chargé’s dispatch No. 433 of July 31 (received September 4), post, p.88.↩