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File No. 763.72111/719a

The Secretary of State to the Chargé d’Affaires in Colombia ( Harrison )1

Department of State, Washington , November 16, 1914, 6 p.m.

[Telegram]

If newspaper misrepresentations made here have reached Bogotá, please say to the Government that this Department is not responsible for the false and misleading construction placed upon the telegram sent you about alleged unneutral acts. This Government has no thought of attempting to control action of other Governments and British and French Governments have made no such requests when they asked our influence. They had reference to a moral influence and our inquiries were of the most friendly character and merely for information.

W. J. Bryan
  1. Same message to Minister in Ecuador, with appropriate change in first line.↩