Office of the Historian

The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland (Stovall)

Department of State,
Washington, November 6, 1914.

[Telegram]

50. Your November 5, 10 a.m. The Department regrets that it can do nothing in this case, as commercial cables are censored by belligerents and not by American authorities. This seems to be a matter that should be taken up by the Swiss ministers in London and Paris and not by this Government.

Lansing