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. 817.00/1698.

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

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Washington, October 5, 1911.

The Department in reply to your September 29 and October 3 believes that attention should be steadily directed to the loan and the claims commission matters; they are the first importance and should be disposed of before consideration of political subjects, which should not be discussed unnecessarily.

Adee.