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)¹

Department of State,
Washington, August 6, 1914.

[Telegram]

Report whether French Government would enter agreement with other powers at war to refrain from interference with any vessels which a committee off American citizens may charter for sole purpose of conveying to the United States American citizens who are detained in Europe by derangement of shipping.

Bryan

1. The Same, Mutatis Mutandis, to the Ambassadors in Germany, Russia, Austria–Hungary, and the Minister in Belgium.