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

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

Department of State,
Washington , November 12, 1914.

[Telegram]

516. Your 1005, November 6. Department’s 455 was intended for your information merely and does not authorize you to confer with Swiss and other neutral ministers or assist in negotiations in the matter of agreements between Great Britain and neutral countries contiguous to Germany and Austria for the regulation of neutral commerce. Conversations relating to the free movement of American commerce to neutral countries in Europe are being conducted here.

Bryan