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. 738.3915/86.

[Extract.]

The American Minister to Haiti to the Secretary of State.

American Legation,
Port au Prince, November 23, 1911.

No. 974.]

Sir: Upon the receipt of the Department’s November 22, 2 p.m., I called upon Secretary Legér and tried to urge a conciliatory attitude pending the settlement of the boundary dispute, but he absolutely refused to consent to what he styles an invasion. He says that if the Dominicans do not withdraw the Haitian Government will exert every possible means to force them to do so. He insists that the status quo line be respected pending negotiations for the permanent settlement of the question.

I have, etc.

H. W. Furniss.