Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 8, 1914

File No. 812.6363/88.

The British Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

British Embassy,
Washington, June 2, 1914.

Sir: I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note dated to-day in which you state: [Quotes note of June 2, 1914, printed on the preceding page.]

I have the honour to inform you in reply that I am authorised by my Government to accept in their name the agreement as described above, which they will therefore regard as coming into effect from this day’s date.

I have [etc.]

Cecil Spring Rice

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