Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1910

The Secretary of State to Ambassador O’Brien.¹

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, December 14, 1909.

Mr. Knox instructs Mr. O’Brien to take an early opportunity of communicating formally to the foreign office the substance of the memorandum to the British foreign office which was embodied in the department’s telegram of November 6, taking care to set forth fully the ideas therein contained. Says that the Government of Great Britain has signified its approval of the general principle involved, and directs that he endeavor to secure a like favorable consideration of the project by the Government to which he is accredited.

1. Repeated to Peking, Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg.