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Memorandum by the Secretary of State of a Conversation With the German Ambassador (Bernstorff), December 10, 1915, 4:30 p.m.
December 10, 1915, 4:30 p.m.
The German Ambassador called on me this afternoon and handed me the attached note.23 He stated that he did so in person because he had received my letter of today24 in which I expressed the idea that I thought there had been undue delay in compliance with our request for the recall of Captains Boy-Ed and von Papen, and he desired to tell me that he was not responsible for such delay.
I replied to him that I did not consider that he was responsible, but I thought there was responsibility at Berlin.
Robert Lansing