Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 893.51/1253.

The Secretary of State to the American Minister.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, January 24, 1913.

The Department learns from the American group that the consortium is not threatened by the proposed advance to be made independently by the British and German bankers, but that this advance if made would be open to participation by the other groups as required by the quadruple and sextuple inter-group agreements.

Knox.