Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1905

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Powell.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington , March 21, 1905 .

(Mr. Adee asks whether the order expelling the Syrians affects merely those fraudulently naturalized or whether it is general. Instructs him in the latter case to remonstrate against the application of the order to lawfully naturalized citizens of the United States of Syrian origin.)