Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1895, Part I

Mr. Uhl to Mr. Eustis.

Department of State,
Washington, July 3, 1895.

No. 461.]

Sir: Your No. 311, of the 6th ultimo, has been received. You therein report the result of an interview with Mr. Hanotaux in reference to the rupture of relations between France and Venezuela, from which it appears that Mr. Hanotaux gave you no encouragement to believe that the French Government would change its attitude, and that there was a decided indisposition on its part to resume at present diplomatic relations with the Venezuelan Government.

It is sincerely hoped that your discreet and temperate representations may tend to induce the French Government to view the situation in a more favorable light, and that its present indisposition to resume diplomatic relations with the Venezuelan Government may be overcome.

I am, etc.,

Edwin F. Uhl,
Acting Secretary

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