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

File No. 367116/93.

The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador Straus.

Department of State,
Washington, June 30, 1910.

No. 116.]

Sir: Your dispatch, No. 173, of the 16th ultimo, concerning the status of the negotiations respecting American educational and missionary institutions in the Ottoman Empire, has been received and read with attention.

The difficulties with which you are meeting in your efforts to press the negotiations to a successful conclusion are fully understood, and your action in the matter has the approval of the department.

I am, etc.,

Huntington Wilson.