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