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

File No. 823.00/127a.

The Secretary of State to Minister McMillin.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, February 12, 1914.

The Junta created by the Congress being in uncontested exercise of executive power and such exercise being freely acquiesced in by the people, you are instructed to recognize the Junta as a Provisional Government pending the establishment of a permanent executive.

Bryan

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