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

File No. 812.00/7528.

The Secretary of State to the American Ambassador.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, May 19, 1913—11 a.m.

Your telegram of May 18. No statement on the subject of recognition has been issued by the Department and no intimation given on the subject. Any statement made will of course be communicated to you and you are therefore authorized to deny as without authority statements which appear in the press which are not verified by direct communications to you.

Bryan.