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

File No. 838.51/369.

The Secretary of State to Minister Blanchard.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, December 7, 1914, 5 p.m.

Your December 2, 10 a.m. You are instructed to inform Theodore that the United States will refuse to regard as legal any such issue of paper money as he proposes.

French and German Ambassadors in Washington have been advised in this sense, in order that their nationals in Haiti may be informed. You may show this telegram to your French and German colleagues.

Bryan

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