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. 14457/7.

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Beaupré.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, August 6, 1908.

Mr. Adee refers to legation’s telegram of August 1 relative to the inquiry of the Netherlands minister for foreign affairs concerning the possibility of coercive action in regard to Venezuela, and says he is directed by the Secretary of State to answer that the Government of the United States should not feel at liberty to object to measures of the character described in the minister’s question not involving occupation of territory either permanent or of such a character as to threaten permanency.