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. 611.627/144.

The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Berlin, October 15, 1910.

Referring to your Oceober 8, the potash negotiations have ended without any favorable result. I have asked Mr. Davis to withhold his report to the Department until I have represented to the chancellor the gravity of the situation and made a personal appeal for a friendly arrangement.

Hill.