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

The Secretary of State to the French Ambassador (Jusserand)

Department of State,
Washington, September 2, 1914.

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Embassy’s note of August 20, 1914, stating that your Government has heard that Austro-Hungarian shipowners intend to make an effort to obtain from American consular officers certificates of American nationality for vessels sold to American citizens and that the Government of the Republic could not recognize such transfers, if made.

Accept [etc.]

W. J. Bryan