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

File No. 822.51/185.

The Secretary of State to Minister Hartman.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, August 25, 1914.

Your August 22. On account of the grave disturbance to all the money markets of the world and the almost total suspension of credits, the Department does not feel that the present is a propitious time to assist Ecuador in obtaining a loan.

Bryan

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