Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1903

Mr. White to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Embassy of the United States,
London, December 17, 1902.

(Mr. White reports that he has just had an interview with the minister for foreign affairs, to whom he communicated his instructions to represent the desirability of arbitration. The minister for foreign affairs is not yet able to make a reply, but hopes to do so after the meeting of the cabinet, when Mr. White is to see him.)