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

File No. 850d.00/265b.

The Secretary of State to Minister Schmedeman.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, May 19, 1914.

Inform Foreign Office Department has appointed Fred K. Nielsen, Assistant Solicitor of this Department, as its technical delegate to assist delegates of this Government at the Spitzbergen Conference.²

Bryan

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2. Mr. Nielsen was later appointed plenipotentiary delegate.