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. 6369/317B.

The Secretary of State to Consul Moffat.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, December 2, 1909.

Mr. Knox quotes for the information of Mr. Moffat the note delivered yesterday to the then chargé d’affaires in Nicaragua.¹

Directs him to make clear to the revolutionary leaders their obligation as expressed above as well as our willingness to hold unofficially communication with them.

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