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

File No. 763.72111/373

The Chargé d’Affaires in Sweden (Caffery) to the Secretary of State

American Legation,
Stockholm, July 31, 1914.
[Received September 4.]

No. 433]

Sir: I have the honor to report that the sympathies of the Swedish Government are with the Triple Alliance and that the German Government is endeavoring to persuade Sweden to attack Russia in case of a war between Russia and Germany. The present Conservative Government, however, is a minority government and it is my opinion that such a war would not be popular with the mass of Swedish people.

I have [etc.]

Jefferson Caffery