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

File No. 312.51/45a.

The Secretary of State to Consul General Hanna.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, June 26, 1914.

Telegraph all available information regarding Brothers of the Christian Schools. Reported nineteen teachers of this school, all foreigners, were imprisoned by Constitutionalists because demand for $500,000 not complied with, but later released and forced to leave the country. Teachers now in Havana desire return. Will authorities permit and give protection? What has become of school property?

Bryan

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