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. 611.627/262.

The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Berlin, December 23, 1910.

At an interview yesterday with the chancellor I presented your aide memoire of December 20. He received it amiably and asked for time to reply, considering its importance and the absence of his colleagues at this holiday season.

Hill.