Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72/1246

The Minister in Portugal (Birch) to the Secretary of State

American Legation,
Lisbon, undated.
[Received November 24, 1914, 11:40 a.m.]

[Telegram]

324. The Portuguese Senate and House of Deputies unanimously approved the following resolution yesterday:

The executive power is authorized to intervene militarily in the present international armed conflict whenever and in the manner it may judge necessary to our high interests and duties as a free nation and an ally of England, adopting for this purpose the extraordinary measures which the circumstances of the moment demand.

Birch