Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914, Supplement, The World War

File No. 704.6291/6

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Persia (Caldwell)

Department of State,
Washington, December 19, 1914.

[Telegram]

Department’s November 5.¹ German Ambassador here states you have assumed protection Germans in Persia owing to urgency. Department approves action and at request of Ambassador desires you also when necessary take charge German interests in parts of Persia occupied by Russian forces.

Bryan

1. Ante, p. 745.