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

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Herrick)

Department of State,
Washington, July 31, 1914, midnight.

[Telegram]

We have received no request from German Embassy. If request is made we shall of course accede to it but with the understanding that it will not prevent our acting for other nations in case they also request. We still hope most sincerely that a general war may be averted.

Bryan