Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 8, 1908

File No. 10044/26.

The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador Leishman.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, August 3, 1908.

(Mr. Bacon informs Mr. Leishman that, His Majesty having announced his policy to the diplomatic corps, he may express the sympathetic interest with which the President has observed the confirmation of representative government in Turkish dominions, and his cordial hope that this important step will aid in enhancing the permanent peace and prosperity of the great Ottoman nation.)