Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1911

File No. 514.2A2a/86.

The Secretary of State to the Swedish Minister.

Department of State,
Washington, August 2, 1911.

My Dear Mr. Minister: In compliance with your verbal request for information as to this Government’s views concerning the employment by the Ottoman Government of the emblem of the Red Crescent instead of the Red Cross, I take pleasure in communicating to you the fact that the competent authorities of this Government are disposed to accord recognition to the Red Crescent, on the condition of a similar mutual recognition of the Red Cross by the Ottoman authorities.

In regard to your request to be privately informed whether this Government intends to take any measures to prevent the marks or the name of the Red Crescent being used for commercial purposes, I regret that I can not yet give you any definite reply, as the question of recommending to Congress such legislation is still under consideration by this Department.

I am, etc.,

P. C. Knox.