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

File No. 763.72/878

The Ambassador in Great Britain (Page) to the Secretary of State

American Embassy,
London, September 15, 1914, 7 p.m.
[Received 9 p.m.]

[Telegram]

No. 675]

Would it not be a fruitful idea if the Carnegie Peace Foundation¹ should appoint a committee of inquiry of eminent Americans composed of men of international reputation to come to Europe immediately and investigate the alleged atrocities and the general conduct of the war upon a humanitarian point of view? Their report would become an historic document.

American Ambassador

1. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.