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

The Secretary of State to the Chargé d’Affaires in China (MacMurray)

Department of State,
Washington, August 20, 1914, 5 p.m.

[Telegram—Extract]

Your telegram of August 20, 3 a.m. Inform Minister Liang that the Department regrets its inability to comply with his request.... The Department feels sure that such a course would do more to provoke than to avert war.

Bryan