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

File No. 195.2/258

The Chargé d’Affaires in Russia (Wilson) to the Secretary of State

American Embassy,
Petrograd, September 11, 1914, 10 a.m.
[Received 5 p.m.]

[Telegram]

12. Reported plan of allowing Americans to purchase German vessels causing most unfavorable comment here, official and in the press. Public opinion already believes that American Government has pro-German sympathies.

Wilson