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

File No. 763.72119/4

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Page)

Department of State,
Washington, August 1, 1914, 10 p.m.

[Telegram]

Suggestion made to the British Government through you has not been communicated to any other government but the President asked you to let us know if there is the slightest intimation that such a suggestion might be effective elsewhere.¹ He is anxious to do everything in his power to avert war.

Bryan

1. See the Ambassador’s telegram No. 258, August 3, 6 p.m., post, p. 37.