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

Mr. Bowen to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Legation of the United States,
Caracas, December 8, 1902.

(Mr. Bowen reports that the President of Venezuela has published a letter in the newspapers stating that foreign creditors must await the reestablishment of peace, when all promises will be fulfilled; and adding that, in the meanwhile, he will not try to placate with phrases; nor will he accept humiliation.)