Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

File No. 5315/351.

The Secretary of State to Chargé Fletcher.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, July 16, 1909.

Mr. Knox acknowledges Mr. Fletcher’s telegram of the 15th and informs him that the department approves his suggestion with regard to increasing the amount of the present loan and admitting equal American financial participation in revised loan, and that it would regard such an arrangement satisfactory, provided American interests enjoyed absolutely equal rights in every particular.