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

File No. 763.72/788

The German Ambassador (Bernstorff) to the Secretary of State

German Embassy,
Washington, September 3, 1914.
[Received September 4.]

No. A 1108/14]

Mr. Secretary of State: I have the honor to inform your excellency that I am instructed by my Government to deny most categorically the rumors circulated by English agencies to the effect that Germany, in case she emerges victorious from the present war, intends to seek expansion in South America.

Accept [etc.]

J. Bernstorff