Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, The Lansing Papers, 1914–1920, Volume I

763.72/2689½: Telegram

The Ambassador in Great Britain (Page) to the Secretary of State

London, May 6, 1916—12 noon.
[Received 3:35 p. m.]

4256. For the President and the Secretary only. Newspaper comment and private opinion here regard the German note³⁹ as only [another] effort to prolong discussion, to embroil our Government and Great Britain and to evade the issue. [The expectation] of our friends here, as far as I can gather [it,] is of an immediate break. Else they will consider that we have yielded to evasion.

American Ambassador

39. Ibid., p. 257.