Office of the Historian

793.94/393a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain ( Page )24

Washington, May 6, 1915—7 p. m.

1519. Please call at the Foreign Office and inform the Government that we are both alarmed and distressed at the news from Japan and China. Ask whether the British Government will join us in a friendly but earnest appeal to Japan and China to continue their negotiations in the spirit of patience and friendship until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, representing that it would be unfortunate beyond expression if these nations should be drawn into armed conflict; and that as a friend of both nations we feel it our duty to ask the cooperation of other friendly nations in an effort to prevent such a calamity. A similar message is being sent to France and Russia.

Bryan
  1. The same, mutatis mutandis, to the Ambassador in France as No. 790, and to the Ambassador in Russia as No. 315.↩