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

File No. 763.72111/7

The French Chargé d’Affaires ( Clausse ) to the Secretary of State

French Embassy,
Manchester, Massachusetts , August 4, 1914.
[Received 3 p.m.]

[Telegram]

My Government having been informed of a bill now pending before Congress tending to facilitate the acquisition by foreign merchant vessels of the American nationality has asked me to draw the Federal Government’s attention to the dispositions of the London Declaration of 1909, signed by the United States, and to make all reserves concerning the transfer of flags that might be made in opposition to said declaration and which could not therefore be recognized by the French Government.

Clausse