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. 417.00/89.

The American Chargé d’Affaires to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Managua, November 6, 1911.

The President has been informed by the secretary of the German Legation that his Government does not recognize the mixed commission, “for political reasons,” and that he believes the other nations will not recognize it, adding that his Government is disposed, however, to arrive at an amicable settlement of German claims.

Gunther.