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

File No. 817.00/2382.

The Secretary of State to Minister Hale.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, December 29, 1914.

Answering your December 24. Our representations were not presented in the form of a demand, but merely as information conveyed to us and transmitted by us in a spirit of friendship and amity in the interest of peace and order in Central America. Having done this much, our responsibility ends.

Bryan

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