Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 893.00/746.

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

[Telegram.—Extract.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
London, January 31, 1912.

The Foreign Office intend to reply to Japan that although the British Government can not undertake absolutely to prevent their nationals from making loans in future, the Government are ready to “use their influence as far as possible to prevent” such financial assistance.

Phillips.